Where: Japan (30.7° N, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 130.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tajima Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tajima Fm, which locally unconformably overlies the Kumagé Gp (Paleogene) and is regionally overlain by the Hasé Fm. AGE: Early Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 1 m thickness at this section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, medium-grained, coarse, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hayasaka
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: S. Hayasaka. REPOSITORY: Possibly Tohoku University.
Primary reference: S. Hayasaka. 1973. Pliocene marine fauna from Tane-ga-shima, South Kyushu, Japan. Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd series (Geology), Special Volume 6:97-108 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97033: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Fulvia sp. Gray 1853 cockle | |
Callista (Callista) chinensis Holten 1802 venus clam | |
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam | |
"Venericardia (Megacardita) ferruginosa" = Megacardita
"Venericardia (Megacardita) ferruginosa" = Megacardita clam | |
Volsella sp. Scopoli 1777 mussel | |
Amussiopecten praesignis Yokoyama 1922 scallop
Chlamys nipponensis scallop | |
Notostrea musashiana oyster | |
"Anadara (Scapharca) cf. suzukii" = Scapharca
"Anadara (Scapharca) cf. suzukii" = Scapharca clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Batillaria sp. Benson 1842 snail | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
"Pyrene (Mitrella) sp." = Mitrella
"Pyrene (Mitrella) sp." = Mitrella Risso 1826 snail | |
Buccinum (Volutoharpa) sp. Linnaeus 1758 true whelk | |
Ceratostoma (Ocenebra) modestum murex snail | |
Tonna luteostoma tun shell | |
Architectonica sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Graptacme) buccinulum tusk shell | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Pictothyris tanegashimaensis Hayasaka 1973
Pictothyris picta Dillwyn 1817
"Pictothyris hanzawai" = Kikaithyris hanzawai Yabe 1932 SUBSPECIES: Pictothyris hanzawai lenticularis
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Coptothyris excelsa Yokoyama 1923 |