Toyora, Dactylioceras helianthoides zone, Locality Nishinikayama 3M (Jurassic of Japan)

Where: Yamaguchi, Japan (34.3° N, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 138.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nishinakayama Formation (Toyora Group), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Locality belongs to the Dactylioceras helanthoides zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• Lower to Middle Jurassic shallow marine (partly brackish?) clastic deposits

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Tanabe. 1991. Early Jurrasic Macrofauna of the Oxygen-Depleted Epicontinental Marin Basin in the Toyora Area, West Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication 3:147-161 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38222: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ammonoida indet.
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Pseudomytiloides matsumotoi
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Fuciniceras nakayamense, Harpoceras chrysanthemum, Harpoceras inouyei
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Peronoceras subfibulatum, Dactylioceras helianthoides
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras sp.
Calliphylloceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite