Soma Area, Awazu Formation, Honshu: Bajocian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys awazuensis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Latitrigonia pyramidalis
Nipponitrigonia sagawai
subsp. sagawai
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) awazuensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 140.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 146.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bajocian
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Soma Formation:Awazu
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Bajocian (or Bathonian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
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:40544
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-25 01:39:13 Last modified:2004-06-29 15:21:56
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-25 01:39:13
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]