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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pulsidis nagatoensis clam | |
Eomiodon matsumotoi clam |