Manda, Miike Coal-field (650 feet depth) (Eocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.1° N, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 124.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manda Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• According to Mizuno (1962, 1964), the Manda Group is correlated with the Okinoshiman stage, set chronologically by Ozaki et al. (1991) and Mizuno (1992) in the late Middle Eocene (Bartonian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green sandstone

• Dark greyish green sandstone which is fine to medium-grained and quite hard.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1897-1904

Primary reference: M. Yokoyama. 1911. Some Tertiary fossils from the Miike coal-field. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo 27:1-16 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179911: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella fusca
Crassatella fusca Yokoyama 1911 clam