17 m above the road in Ena, Matsuzaki (Miocene of Japan)

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

• Reef-building corals are represented by more than 40 genera, indicating the marine climate was tropical (Kadota and Tomida, 2012).
• composed of yellowish white to grayish white, allochthonous limestone blocks

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
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
"Nephrolepidina japonica" = Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
"Nephrolepidina japonica" = Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)
(Yabe 1906)
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Tectus conus top snail
(Gmelin 1791
Tectus cf. japonicus Horikoshi 1958 top snail
Kobayashi and Horikoshi 1958
 Trochoidea - Tegulidae
Tegula sp. Lesson 1835 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Globularia cf. nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai
"Globularia cf. nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai Otuka 1938 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus (Tricornis) sp. Jousseaume 1886 conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
"Tibia powisi" = Tibia (Sulcogladius) powisi
"Tibia powisi" = Tibia (Sulcogladius) powisi Petit 1840 snail
(Petit 1842
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Chelyconus cf. tokunagai" = Conus (Chelyoconus)
"Chelyconus cf. tokunagai" = Conus (Chelyoconus) cone shell
(Otuka 1934
 Neogastropoda - Harpidae
Morum (Onisidia) sp. Röding 1798 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Tutufa sp. Jousseaume 1881 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea cf. ohiroi Masuda 1967 cowry
Masuda 1967
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Spondylus anacanthus scallop
Mawe 1823
Spondylus cf. candidus Lamarck 1819 scallop
Lamarck 1819
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga cf. zitteliana mussel
Dunker 1882
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama lazarus Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Linnaeus 1758
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona sp. Schumacher 1817 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam
 Life -
Barbatia cf. amygdalumtostum Röding 1798
(Roding 1798