Middle Haborogawa Fm - Sample DF0145, Detofutamata River (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (44.1° N, 141.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 132.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Haborogawa Formation (Yezo Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unit Uf-g, Middle Haborogawa Fm overlain by Upper Haborogawa Fm of the Yezo Gp and the Campanian-Maastrichtian Pankezawa Fm. THICKNESS: 450 m. AGE: Santonian, Inoceramus amakusensis zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Near base of section, near middle of 450 m thick Middle Haborogawa Fm. Slighty higher (~100 m) in section than PBDB# 62209.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, silty sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported. Assigned to Siliciclastic - offshore on the basis of facies description. TECTONIC SETTING: No tectonic data reported. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: No sequence stratigraphic data reported, assumed to be regressive as in coarsening up portion of sedimentary sequence.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Bioturbated muddy sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification, assumed to be lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Assumed to be collected by authors (Moriya and Hirano) and supplemented by collections of an earlier author Toshimitsu (see Toshimitsu 1988). REPOSITORY: Unknown repository, posibly Waseda University, Japan.

Primary reference: K. Moriya and H. Hirano. 2001. Cretaceous stratigraphy in the Chikubetsu area, Hokaido. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 107(3):199-214 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62210: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Fairly comprehensive for all macrofauna. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-level assignments.
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cf. amakusensis Nagao and Matsumoto 1940 clam
Sphenoceramus naumanni Yokoyama 1890 clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858 divaricate nutclam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
Listed as "Ammonoid jaws"
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras ezoense, Phyllopachyceras sp., "Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) subramosum" = Neophylloceras, "Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) sp." = Neophylloceras
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
"Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) subramosum" = Neophylloceras ammonite
"Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) sp." = Neophylloceras Shimizu 1934 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Gaudryceras cf. denseplicatum" = Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denseplicatum Jimbo 1894 ammonite
Tetragonites sp. Kossmat 1895 ammonite
Tetragonites glabrus Jimbo 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscidae indet. Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Yokoyamaoceras sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Damesites sp. Matsumoto 1942 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Collignoniceratidae indet. Wright and Wright 1951 ammonite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail