Lower Iojima Fm - Okinoshima (Eocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (34.7° N, 132.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 127.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Iojima Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Okinoshima Fm, which regionally overlies the Middle Eocene Hashima Fm, and underlying the Lower Iojima Fm (Late Eocene). THICKNESS: From formation that attains a thickness of ~380 m. AGE: Late Eocene, based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for formation in this local area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow sea, soft-bottom siliciclastic bottom.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Presumed lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: A. Mizuno (c. 1964). REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, unknown.

Primary reference: A. Mizuno. 1964. Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan. Geological Survey of Japan Report 204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70921: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Farly modern nomenclature, and species-level assignments.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica Yokoyama 1911 clam