Also known as Locality 4
Where: Japan (36.7° N, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 138.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Kanomatazawa Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• middle unit of shioya group, divided into two members, lower and upper.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, coarse-grained conglomerate and lithified, fine-grained, medium sandstone
Primary reference: Y. Iwasaki. 1970. The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs. Journal of the faculty of science, University of Tokyo, Section 2 17(3):351-444 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52222: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 01.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium yokoyamai tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella confusa pointed nut clam | |
Glycymeris cisshuensis Makiyama 1926 clam | |
"Pecten (Patinopecten) paraplebejus" = Mizuhopecten paraplebejus
"Pecten (Patinopecten) paraplebejus" = Mizuhopecten paraplebejus Nomura and Hatai 1936 scallop | |
Laevicardium shiobarense cockle | |
Dosinia kaneharai, Dosinia japonica, "Protothaca tateiwai" = Leukoma, Pseudamiantis ? pinguis, Callista ? sp.
Dosinia japonica venus clam
"Protothaca tateiwai" = Leukoma venus clam
Pseudamiantis ? pinguis venus clam
Callista ? sp. Poli 1791 venus clam | |
"Felaniella usta" = Diplodonta
"Felaniella usta" = Diplodonta clam | |
"Lucinoma annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum
"Lucinoma annulata" = Lucinoma annulatum Reeve 1850 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Neverita kiritaniana" = Glossaulax didyma, "Sinum yabei" = Sinum ineptum
"Neverita kiritaniana" = Glossaulax didyma Röding 1798 moon snail
"Sinum yabei" = Sinum ineptum Yokoyama 1924 moon snail | |
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail | |
? Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863 true whelk
Phos iwakianus true whelk | |
Cancellaria hukusimana snail | |
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Turritella tanaguraensis turret shell |