Takinoike-pond (Cretaceous of Japan)

Also known as NSM-PCL11-73-5; Loc. 4 in Matusomoto and Morozumi 1980

Where: Japan (34.4° N, 135.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 124.3° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hetonaiense zone, Azenotani Mudstone Member (Mutsuo Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy siltstone

• no paleoenvironmental data
• sandy siltstone

Primary reference: T. Kase. 1990. Late Cretaceous gastropods from the Izumi Group of southwest Japan. Journal of Paleontology 64(4):563-578 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4894: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.08.1999, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• gastropods only
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Deussenia takinoikensis n. sp.
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia (Globularia) izumiensis
Globularia (Globularia) izumiensis snail
G. (Globularia)
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Teeth, representing the small and laterally compressed Kourisodon-like type (Tanimoto et al., 2001)
Chondrichthyes
 Elasmobranchii -
Elasmobranchii indet.
Elasmobranchii indet. elasmobranch
Teeth