Where: Japan (32.4° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 124.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shiratake Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Shiratake Fm, which conformably overlies the ?Early-Middle Eocene Akasaki Fm (and in places unconformably overlies Cretaceous sediments), and is conformably overlain by the Kyoragi Fm (Middle Eocene). THICKNESS: From bed within formation of group that attains a thickness of 100 m. AGE: Middle Eocene, based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: Nagao (c. 1928). 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 71015: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.04.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Faunus nipponicus Nagao 1928 snail | |
Colpospira okadai turret shell
Orectospira gemma turret shell | |
? Lunatia utoensis Nagao 1928 moon snail | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
? Sycostoma sp. Cox 1931 snail | |
Eopleurotoma higoensis turrid | |
"Orthaulax" japonicus Nagao 1924 snail | |
Nerita subgranulose snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Lentidium kyushuense, "Caryocorbula subtumida" = Caestocorbula subtumida
"Caryocorbula subtumida" = Caestocorbula subtumida Nagao 1928 clam | |
Callista ariakensis Nagao 1928 venus clam | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam |