Where: Shizuoka, Japan (34.8° N, 138.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 137.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: C4 nannofossil zone, Ena Limestone Formation (Yugashima Group), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Right at N9-N10 boundary. The Ena Limestone is intercalated with the pale green, tuffaceous, fine-grained sandstone of the Sakurada Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; gray, white, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The materials used in this study are housed at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as KPM) and Mizunami Fossil Museum (abbreviated as MFM).
Primary reference: S. Tomida and M. Kadota. 2014. Turbo (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) fossils from the middle Miocene of Izu Peninsula, central Japan, including the description of three new species. Paleontological Research 18(2):67-76 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176546: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Nephrolepidina japonica" = Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
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Gastropoda | |
Turbo (Turbo) hosodai n. sp., Turbo (Marmarostoma) yoshiharuyabei n. sp., ? Turbo (Marmarostoma) sanoi n. sp., Astraea sp.
Turbo (Turbo) hosodai n. sp. snail
Turbo (Marmarostoma) yoshiharuyabei n. sp. snail
? Turbo (Marmarostoma) sanoi n. sp. snail
Astraea sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
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Tegula sp. Lesson 1835 snail | |
"Globularia cf. nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai
"Globularia cf. nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai Otuka 1938 snail | |
Strombus (Tricornis) sp. Jousseaume 1886 conch | |
"Tibia powisi" = Tibia (Sulcogladius) powisi
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"Chelyconus cf. tokunagai" = Conus (Chelyoconus)
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Morum (Onisidia) sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Tutufa sp. Jousseaume 1881 frog shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
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Antigona sp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam | |
Afrocardium cf. thielei cockle | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
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