Locality 6 (Glycymeris-Dosinia assemblage) - Shimonoseki City (Ashiya Gp) (Oligocene of Japan)

Also known as GD, 6

Where: Yamaguchi, Japan (34.0° N, 130.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 127.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashiya Group, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• No stratigraphic data available as manuscript is in Japanese.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; medium-grained, coarse sandstone

• Sedimentary facies and molluscan assemblages suggest an environment in the upper euneritic zone of a temperate to subtropical sea. From Glycymeris-Dosinia association
• SPECIFIC: medium-coarse sandstone. GENERAL: The Ashiya Group is characterised by a sandstone-dominant shallw marine sequence (about 150 m thick), in which sedimentary facies include cross-stratified sandstone, parallel stratified sandstone, bioturbated sandstone, and sandstone/siltstone couplet facies.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• No collection data available as manuscript is in Japanese. Material is reposited in the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, and in Shimonoseki City Archaeological Museum, Shimonoseki.

Primary reference: K. Okamoto and T. Sakai. 1995. Sedimentary facies and fossil molluscs of the Oligocene Ashiya Group in the Hikoshima Takenokojim and Nishiyama area, Shimonoseki City, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22:19-50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51439: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list is exhaustive for mollusca and includes other groups (Penguins, Sharks etc). Nomenclature is of a high quality.
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium" ashiyaensis Nagao 1928 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma nagaoi Oyama and Mizuno 1958 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Dosinia (Phacosoma) chikuzenensis" = Dosinia nomurai
"Dosinia (Phacosoma) chikuzenensis" = Dosinia nomurai Otuka 1934 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella confusa Nagao 1928 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Pseudocardium sp. Gabb 1866 clam
=Spisula sp. A of Nagao
 Solenida - Solenidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila cf. ashiyaensis divaricate nutclam
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858 divaricate nutclam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Nassarius" "sp. B" Duméril 1806 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira sp., "Euspira ashiyaensis" = Euspira meisensis
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail
"Euspira ashiyaensis" = Euspira meisensis Makiyama 1926 moon snail