Ura (Dosinia bed, Takamatsu silt facies) [Toshima Sand] (Pleistocene of Japan)

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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified.

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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea (Crassostrea) pestigris" = Planostrea pestigris
"Ostrea (Crassostrea) pestigris" = Planostrea pestigris Hanley 1846 flat oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Fulvia mutica Reeve 1844 cockle
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae