Where: Japan (35.1° N, 134.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 131.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yoshino Formation (Katsuta Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• ? Middle Miocene, assemblage A, lower part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Taguchi, T. Osafune, and A. Obayashi. 1981. New Miocene mollusca from the Katsuta Group, Nagi-cho, Okayama Prefecture, SW Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 8:1-6 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77742: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Telescopium cf. schencki, Vicarya japonica, Tateiwaia yamanarii, Tateiwaia tateiwai, Vicaryella sp., Vicaryella cf. notoensis, Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) tokunariensis, Terebralia itoigawai n. sp., Terebralia kakiensis n. sp.
Telescopium cf. schencki horn snail
Vicarya japonica horn snail
Tateiwaia yamanarii horn snail
Tateiwaia tateiwai Makiyama 1936 horn snail
Vicaryella sp. Yabe and Hatai 1938 horn snail
Vicaryella cf. notoensis Masuda 1956 horn snail
Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) tokunariensis Masuda 1956 horn snail
Terebralia itoigawai n. sp. horn snail
Terebralia kakiensis n. sp. horn snail | |
Batillaria toshioi snail
Batillaria sp. Benson 1842 snail | |
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail | |
Turritella kiiensis turret shell | |
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Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) sp. Oyama 1950 murex snail | |
"Lunella kurodai" = Turbo (Lunella) snail
Turbo ozawai Otuka 1938 snail
Turbo cf. ozawai Otuka 1938 snail
Homalopoma sp. Carpenter 1864 snail | |
Nerita cf. ishidae snail
Nerita sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923 clam | |
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Martesia sp. Sowerby 1824 clam | |
"Solidicorbula succincta" = Corbula (Solidicorbula)
"Solidicorbula succincta" = Corbula (Solidicorbula) clam | |
"Hiatula minoensis" = Mya
"Hiatula minoensis" = Mya softshell clam | |
? Joannisiella sp. Dall 1895 clam | |
"Geloina cf. stachi" = Polymesoda (Geloina), "Geloina yamanei" = Polymesoda (Geloina)
"Geloina cf. stachi" = Polymesoda (Geloina) clam
"Geloina yamanei" = Polymesoda (Geloina) clam | |
Asaphis sp. Modeer 1793 clam | |
Apolymetis sp. Salisbury 1929 tellin clam
Tellina notoensis tellin clam
"Fabulina sp." = Tellina (Fabulina) tellin clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
? Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |
Crassostrea gravitesta oyster | |
Striarca elongata n. sp., Striarca uetsukiensis, Striarca sp., Anadara (Hataiarca) kakehataensis, Anadara (Hataiarca) sp.
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Thecostraca | |
"Balanus" sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |