Goshoura Island (Loc.1512) (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.3° N, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 127.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arakuchizaki Member (Eboshi Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, graded sandstone and lithified, gray, green mudstone

• The lower part is

•composed of alternated beds of gravelly sandstone

•and red or light-greenish-gray mudstone. The thickness

•ranges from 0 to 85 m. The sandstone is crossstratified

•with reactivation surfaces and convex-downshaped

•erosional surfaces suggesting channels

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: T. Komatsu and H. Maeda. 2005. Stratigraphy and fossil bivalve assemblages of the mid-Cretaceous Goshoura Group, southwest Japan. Paleontological Research 9(2):119-142 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122346: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 22.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras sp.
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmoceras kossmanti