Also known as Tanabe Bay
Where: Japan (39.0° N, 141.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 138.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: M2 Member (Shirahama Formation), Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• from a single bedding plane "in the middle part (the M2 Member) of the Shirahama Formation... late Early to early Middle Miocene (ca. 16 Ma)"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: National Science Museum, Tokyo collection
Primary reference: T. F. Shibata and T. Oji. 2007. Kiimetra miocenica, a new genus and species of the family Calometridae (Echinodermata : Crinoidea) from the Middle Miocene of southwestern Japan. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):397-404 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90777: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Kiimetra miocenica n. gen. n. sp.
Kiimetra miocenica n. gen. n. sp. Shibata and Oji 2007 Feather star | |
Bivalvia | |
Crassostrea gravitesta oyster | |
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840 |