Goshoura Island (Loc.1811) (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.3° N, 130.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 123.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gannohana Member (Enokuchi Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Very finegrained

•sandstone predominates in the western part of

•Goshoura Island (Locs. 1811, 1822).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 123152: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 12.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Graysonites adkinsi Young 1958 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae