Tano, Miyazak-gun [Tano Fm] (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (31.8° N, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 130.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: N17 foram zone, Tano Formation (Miyazaki Group), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tano Formation of the Miyazaki Group, which is overlain by the Aye Fm (latest Miocene) and Kiyotake Fm (earliest Pliocene). AGE: Messinian (late Miocene), on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within Tano Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but likely siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, as determined from figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: Presumably at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Nagoya University (ESN).

Primary reference: S. Tomida and Y. Nakamura. 2001. A new species of Hartungia (Gastropoda: Janthinidae) from late Miocene of Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:217-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161784: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to those treated in the systematic publication and characteristic mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Turbo (Batillus) priscus Ozawa and Tomida 1996 snail
 Epitonioidea - Janthinidae
Hartungia elegans n. sp. Tomida and Nakamura 2001 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys miurensis Yokoyama 1920 scallop
Amussiopecten iitomiensis Otuka 1934 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Paphia exilis Shuto 1957 venus clam
Clementia papyracea Gray 1825 venus clam