Sample B - Kannondake Fm, Miike (Eocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.1° N, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 124.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kannondake Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kannondake Fm, which conformably overlies the Middle Eocene Hokonoko Fm. THICKNESS: From bed within formation of group that attains a thickness of 40 m. AGE: Middle Eocene, based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near the base of the formation, below Sample A and above sample C.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, coarse-grained sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coarse-grained sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Presumed lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• COLLECTOR: Sugai and Furukawa (c. 1960). 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 71024: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Farly modern nomenclature, and species-level assignments.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea" sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica Yokoyama 1911 clam