Where: Fukushima, Japan (37.8° N, 140.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 143.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Koyamada Formation (Soma Group), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone
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 40547: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Entolium kimurai scallop | |
"? Corbula globosa" = Varicorbula globosa
"? Corbula globosa" = Varicorbula globosa Sowerby 1818 clam | |
Myophorella (Promyophorella) orientalis Kobayashi and Tamura 1955 clam |