Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.5° N, 142.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 140.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Furanui Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• early Middle Miocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Uchimura and R. Majima. 1992. The mixed sea area of warm- and cold-water molluscs of the Japanese early Middle Miocene - The case study in the Furanui Formation, mid-Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 98(12):1129-1144 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77921: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cerithidea sp. Swainson 1840 horn snail | |
Batillaria sp. Benson 1842 snail | |
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Searlesia sp. Harmer 1914 true whelk
Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863 true whelk | |
Terebra sp. Bruguière 1789 auger snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Meretrix sp. Lamarck 1799 venus clam
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
"Peronidia sp." = Tellina (Peronidia)
"Peronidia sp." = Tellina (Peronidia) tellin clam | |
Siliqua sp. Mühlfeld 1811 clam | |
Acila (Truncacila) sp. Grant and Gale 1931 divaricate nutclam |