Sukegawa, Taga-gun, Hitati Province: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Hemithyris braunsi Hayasaka 1928
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Diestothyris frontalis (Middendorff 1849)
? Coptothyris grayi (Davidson 1852)
Terebratalia coreanica (Adams and Reeve 1850)
Terebratalia gouldii (Dall 1891)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Laqueidae
Laqueus blanfordi (Dunker 1882)
Laqueus quadratus Yabe and Hatai 1934
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina crossei Davidson 1882
Terebratulina kiiensis Dall and Pisbry 1891
Terebratulina miuraensis Hatai 1940
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810
Kuga 1985
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 140.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 139.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sukegawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Directly overlies metamorphic basement. Age often given as Pliocene but no basis provided.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190799
Authorizer:M. Clapham, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Clapham, M. Uhen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-12-17 23:15:59 Last modified:2017-12-17 23:15:59
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-17 23:15:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64049. K. M. Hatai. 1940. The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku Imperial University, Series 2 20:1-413 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

61545 N. Kuga. 1985. Revision of Neogene Mackerel Shark of Genus Isurus from Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciencem Kyoto University, Series of Geology & Mineralogy 51(1&2):1-20 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]