Rubeshibe-zawa: Early/Lower Campanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Lotiinae indet.
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus schmidti Sokolow 1914
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.7° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.3° North, 130.4° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Campanian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian Zone: Inoceramus schmidti
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "most probably from the Upper Yezo Group"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous mudstone
Lithology description: mudstones
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:forearc basin
Geology comments: fossils from "an erratic pebble-sized calcareous concretion"

environment is "deeper" than "outer shelf deposits in Cretaceous forearch basin"

Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: material from a single concretion
Metadata
Also known as:NSM PCL3-23-3; Locality 5
Database number:4874
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-28 10:38:52 Last modified:1999-08-28 13:38:52
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

293. T. Kase and Y. Shigeta. 1996. New species of Patellogastropoda (Mollusca) from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan and Sakhalin, Russia. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):762-771 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]