Nagasaki 2 [Okinoshima Formation]: Late/Upper Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Pliconacca nomii (Nagao 1928)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 129.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 125.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Okinoshima
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Futagojima Fm. AGE: Listed as upper Eocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Only includes Naticidae. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with taxa assigned to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:78433
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-06 19:57:14 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-06 19:57:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26376. R. Majima. 1989. Cenozoic fossil Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Japan. Bulletins of American Paleontology 96(331):1-159 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]