Tokmuro Fm - TM-1: Early/Lower Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Tectonatica janthostomoides Kuroda and Habe 1949
synonym of Cryptonatica andoi
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Mesalia sp. Gray 1847
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Ezocallista sp. Kamada 1962
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Serripes sp. Gould 1841
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma (Macoma) tokyoensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 143.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 141.9° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tokmuro
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Tokomuro Fm, which overlies the Nuibetsu Fm (Oligocene) of the Ombetsu Gp, and is overlain by the Atsunai Fm of the Atsunai Gp. THICKNESS: From bed with formation that attains a thickness of 180 m. AGE: Early Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous,gray lithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Alternating beds of gray siltstone, sandstone, sandy tuff, and hard shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Assemblage appears to be derived from an offshore shelf siliciclastic environment. TEMPERATURE: Stratigraphically adjacent pollen floras indicate a cool-temperate environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Y. Honda. REPOSITORY: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (IGPS).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with subgeneric and species-level assignments.
Metadata
Database number:70380
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-21 19:00:10 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-03-21 19:00:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

23610. Y. Honda. 1988. Molluscan fossils from the Atsunai Group, Kushiro Coal Field, Eastern Hokkaido, Northern Japan. Sato Ho-on Kai Special Publication (Profesoor T. Kotaka Commemorartive Volume) 351-363 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]