Locality 1 - Shobara City (Bihoku Gp): Middle Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Pigulina (Volegalea) sazanami
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Turbo (Marmarostoma) ozawai
Otuka 1938
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Tectus japonicus
Horikoshi 1958
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Gastropoda
- Ampullinidae
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Cernina nakamurai
(Otuka 1938)
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| recombined as Cernina fluctuata nakamurai | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Vicaryella baculla
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Terebralia sp.
Swainson 1840
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Ochetoclava sp.
Woodring 1928
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| spelled with current rank as Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Xenophoridae
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Xenophora sunakozakaensis
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Euspira meisensis
(Makiyama 1926)
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Sinum yabei
Otuka 1934
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r category | |||||||||
| synonym of Sinum ineptum | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica kurodae
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Nerita (Amphinerita) sp.
Martens 1887
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucinoma uetanii
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
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Nipponomarcia nakamurai
(Ikebe 1941)
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| Subspecies: Nipponomarica nakamurai imobaraensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Phacosoma suketoense
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f category | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Dosinia (Phacosoma) | ||||||||||
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Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) lunulata
Makiyama 1926
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiliidae
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Cardilia toyamaensis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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"Hedecardium" ogurai
Otuka 1938
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c category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Lithophaga (Labis) sp.
(Dall 1916)
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f category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Atrina sp.
Gray 1842
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r category | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea gravitesta
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c category | |||||||||
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Ostrea itoigawai
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Fissidentalium sp.
Fischer 1885
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hiroshima |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 133.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 130.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bihoku | Formation: | Lower Sandstone | ||
| Local section: | Nakabara | ||||
| Regional section: | Shobara City | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Sandstone of 80 cm thickness. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fine grained sandstone | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: No environmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Some material reposited in the Mizunami Fossil Museum | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for these localities and high quality nomenclature. Abundance classification: va, very abundant; a, abundant; c, common; f, frequent; r, rare. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 51422 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-04 09:52:58 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-04 09:52:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13681. | K. Oyama, H. Nishimoto, and A. Naruse. 1994. New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 21:19-28 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |