Where: Japan (26.6° N, 128.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 127.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kogachi Member (Haneji Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Noda. 1971. New anadarid and associated molluscan fauna from the Haneji Formation, Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 81:27-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96675: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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"Lunella coronatus" = Turbo (Lunella), "Lunella sp." = Turbo (Lunella)
"Lunella sp." = Turbo (Lunella) snail | |
Batillaria zonalis snail | |
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Tonna sp. Brünnich 1772 tun shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Pododesmus (Monia) noharai n. sp.
Pododesmus (Monia) noharai n. sp. Noda 1971 scallop | |
Anadara (Hataiarca) kogachiensis n. sp. ark | |
Gastrochaena grandis clam | |
Fulvia sp. Gray 1853 cockle
Laevicardium sp. Swainson 1840 cockle | |
Macoma (Macoma) praetexta tellin clam | |
Clementia (Clementia) vatheleti venus clam | |
"Codakia (Jagonia) okinawazimana" = Ctena, Lucina sp.
"Codakia (Jagonia) okinawazimana" = Ctena clam
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam |