Shizukawa Area, Hosoura Formation, Honshu: Toarcian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) niranohamensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon (Isognomon) rikuzenicus
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
? Inoceramus kudoi
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Miyagi
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 141.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.0° North, 149.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shizukawa Formation:Hosoura
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40542
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-25 01:09:36 Last modified:2004-06-29 15:08:29
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-25 01:09:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10664. I. Hayami. 1975. A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bulletin (10) [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]