Tanoura, Kawaguchi Formation, Kumamoto (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.3° N, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 132.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kawaguchi Formation, Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• lower part of the formation

• 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 67158: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae