Hn4051 - Miyako area [Hiraiga Fm] (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (39.8° N, 142.0° E: paleocoordinates 53.0° N, 141.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hiraiga Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hiraiga Fm. AGE: Late Aptian; justification for age not reported in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From and unknown position of the Hiraiga Fm; sandstone 2 m in thickness.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, sandy, calcareous sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Highly calcareous and compact fine-grained sandstone, including rounded pebbles and skeletal material. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kase

• COLLECTOR: T. Kase. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: T. Kase. 1984. Early Cretaceous marine and brackish-water Gastropoda from Japan 1-262 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91308: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods; other taxa (namely bivalves and foraminifera) often present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Cassiope (Cassiope) sp. Coquand 1865 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
 Pseudomelanoidea - Trajanellidae