Where: Japan (33.5° N, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 134.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tosakamo Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• lower member of the Tosakamo Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Tashiro and T. Matsuda. 1986. Lower Cretaceous bivalves from the Sakawa area, Shikoku. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 142:366-392 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69057: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) ishidoensis" = Palaeonucula
"Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) ishidoensis" = Palaeonucula nut clam | |
Gervillaria haradae oyster | |
? Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Leptosolen sp. Conrad 1865 clam | |
Astarte (cf. Trautscholdia) minor Lea 1833 clam | |