Of0001 - Ofunato-Omine mine area [Funagawara Fm] (Cretaceous to of Japan)

Where: Japan (39.1° N, 141.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 143.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Funagawara Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Funagawara Fm. AGE: Upper Neocomian; placed here in Hauterivian-Barremian by enterer; justification for age not reported in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Probably from the Funagawara Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained sandstone. 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 91314: 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.
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Nerineopsis sp.
Nerineopsis sp. Cossmann 1906 snail