17 m above the road in Ena, Matsuzaki: Tortonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Tectus conus
(Gmelin 1791
Tectus cf. japonicus Horikoshi 1958
Kobayashi and Horikoshi 1958
Gastropoda - Tegulidae
Tegula sp. Lesson 1835
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Marmarostoma) yoshiharuyabei n. sp.
? Turbo (Marmarostoma) sanoi n. sp.
Turbo (Turbo) hosodai n. sp.
Astraea sp. Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Globularia cf. nakamurai Otuka 1938
recombined as Cernina fluctuata nakamurai
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Chelyconus cf. tokunagai
spelled with current rank as Conus (Chelyoconus)
(Otuka 1934
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum (Onisidia) sp. Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus (Tricornis) sp. (Jousseaume 1886)
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Tibia powisi (Petit 1840)
recombined as Tibia (Sulcogladius) powisi
(Petit 1842
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea cf. ohiroi Masuda 1967
Masuda 1967
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Tutufa sp. Jousseaume 1881
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga cf. zitteliana
Dunker 1882
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus anacanthus
Mawe 1823
Spondylus cf. candidus Lamarck 1819
Lamarck 1819
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Afrocardium cf. thielei
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama lazarus Linnaeus 1758
Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona sp. Schumacher 1817
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792
Lepidocyclinidae
Nephrolepidina japonica
spelled with current rank as Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
(Yabe 1906)
unclassified
Barbatia cf. amygdalumtostum Röding 1798
(Roding 1798
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shizuoka
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 138.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 137.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian Nannofossil zone: C4
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yugashima Formation:Ena Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Right at N9-N10 boundary. The Ena Limestone is intercalated with the pale green, tuffaceous, fine-grained sandstone of the Sakurada Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,white,yellow "limestone"
Lithology description: composed of yellowish white to grayish white, allochthonous limestone blocks
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: Reef-building corals are represented by more than 40 genera, indicating the marine climate was tropical (Kadota and Tomida, 2012).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The materials used in this study are housed at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as KPM) and Mizunami Fossil Museum (abbreviated as MFM).
Metadata
Database number:176546
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner
Created:2016-02-17 15:22:55 Last modified:2016-02-17 16:47:31
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-17 15:22:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58158. S. Tomida and M. Kadota. 2014. Turbo (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) fossils from the middle Miocene of Izu Peninsula, central Japan, including the description of three new species. Paleontological Research 18(2):67-76 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]