Niranohama, Utatsu-cho, Motoyoshi-gun, Miyagi Prefecture: Hettangian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Asteracanthus sp. Agassiz 1836
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Volsella bakevelloides n. sp. Hayami 1958
Hayami 1958 3 specimens
MM 2719 (holotype), right valve; MM 2720, left valve; MM 2721, left internal mould
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria kitakamiensis n. sp. Hayami 1958
Hayami 1958 2 specimens
MM 2737 (holotype), right external mould; MM 2738, left internal mould
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 152.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shizukawa Formation:Niranohama
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:119673
Authorizer:M. Clapham, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Clapham, B. Allen
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-31 03:00:15 Last modified:2019-05-12 12:24:23
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-31 03:00:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38385. M. Goto, N. Kuga, and K. Hachiya. 1991. On the hybodont elasmobranch teeth of three genera from the Mesozoic of Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 97(9):743-750 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

42990 M. Goto. 1994. Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic fish faunas of the Japanese Islands. The Island Arc 3(1994):247-254 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
47699 M. Goto, T. Uyeno, and Y. Yabumoto. 1996. Summary of Mesozoic elasmobranch remains from Japan. In G. Arratia & G. Viohl (ed.), Mesozoic Fishes - Systematics and Paleoecology 1:73-82 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
68966 I. Hayami. 1958. Liassic Volsella, Mytilus and some other dysodont species in Japan (Studies on the Liassic pelecypods in Japan, 6) . Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan (New Series) 29:155-165 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]