Where: Japan (37.0° N, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 138.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kunugidaira Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kunugidaira Fm which lies unconformably above the Early Oligocene Shirasaka Fm of the Shiramizu Gp and below the Goyasu Fm of the Yunagaya Gp (Early Miocene). THICKNESS: From bed within ~60 m section. AGE: Early Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near middle of upper unit of Kunugidaira Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably the authors A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and K. Uemura, and A. Obuse. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and A. Obuse. 1995. Plant and molluscan fossil assemblages rom the Lower Miocene Kunugidaira Formation in the southern part of the Joban coal-field. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 101(7):532-548 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70331: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassostrea gravitesta oyster | |
Glycymeris cisshuensis Makiyama 1926 clam | |
Cyclina cf. japonica venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithidea sp. Swainson 1840 horn snail |