Ryoseki, Nankoku, Yunoki Formation, Kochi (Cretaceous of Japan)
Where: Japan (33.6° N, 133.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 135.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yunoki Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified siltstone
• brackish-water environment
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Kozai. 1986. Early Cretaceous Pulsidis (Bivalvia) from Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 144:479-489 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67155: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.11.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Pulsidis nagatoensis clam
Pulsidis tashiroi clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Shasticrioceras aff. nipponicus ammonite |