Where: Japan (34.6° N, 137.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 137.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Toshima Sand Formation (Toyohashi Group), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Toshima Sand of the Toyohasi Gp, which overlies the Akasawa SIlt, and is overlain by the Tonami Gravel of the Tahara Gp. AGE: Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Dosinia bed, Takamatsu silt facies of the Toshima Sand.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hayasaka
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: S. Hayasaka. REPOSITORY: Possibly Tohoku University.
Primary reference: S. Hayasaka. 1962. Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 195-217 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 96968: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.07.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea (Crassostrea) pestigris" = Planostrea pestigris
"Ostrea (Crassostrea) pestigris" = Planostrea pestigris Hanley 1846 flat oyster | |
Anomia chinensis jingle | |
Fulvia mutica Reeve 1844 cockle | |
Pitar (Agriopoma) japonicum venus clam
Paphia (Paratapes) undulata Born 1778 venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinella) angulosa venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Neverita (Glossaulax) reiniana moon snail | |
Batillaria zonalis snail
Batillaria multiformis snail |