Where: Japan (32.4° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 125.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Sakasegawa Formation (Sakasegawa Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Sakasegawa Fm, which locally overlies the Late Eocene Itchoda Fm, both of the Sakasegawa Gp. THICKNESS: From formation that attains a thickness of ~1000 m. AGE: Late Eocene, based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for the formation in this local area.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: A. Mizuno (c. 1964). REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, unknown.
Primary reference: A. Mizuno. 1964. Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan. Geological Survey of Japan Report 204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70925: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Orectospira sp. Dall 1925 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Lima nishiyamai file clam | |
"Ctenamusium amakusense" = Parvamussium, "Ctenamusium inouei" = Parvamussium
"Ctenamusium amakusense" = Parvamussium mud scallop
"Ctenamusium inouei" = Parvamussium mud scallop | |
"Pholadomya "margaritacea"" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea
"Pholadomya "margaritacea"" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea Sowerby 1821 clam | |
"Crassatellites nipponensis" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites nipponensis" = Crassatella clam | |
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica Yokoyama 1911 clam |