Where: Japan (26.6° N, 128.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 127.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kogachi Member (Haneji Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Noda. 1971. New anadarid and associated molluscan fauna from the Haneji Formation, Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 81:27-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96674: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Clementia (Clementia) vatheleti venus clam | |
Macoma (Macoma) praetexta tellin clam | |
Pteria cf. coturnix pearl oyster | |
Pododesmus (Monia) noharai Noda 1971 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Batillaria zonalis snail | |
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