Sakawa Area, Torinosu Group, Shikoku (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Kochi, Japan (33.5° N, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 135.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Torinosu Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: I. Hayami. 1975. A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bulletin (10) [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40474: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"? Corbula globosa" = Varicorbula globosa
"? Corbula globosa" = Varicorbula globosa Sowerby 1818 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Astartidae