Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.5° N, 142.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 140.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Furanui Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• early Middle Miocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Uchimura and R. Majima. 1992. The mixed sea area of warm- and cold-water molluscs of the Japanese early Middle Miocene - The case study in the Furanui Formation, mid-Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 98(12):1129-1144 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77919: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cryptonatica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis
"Cryptonatica clausa" = Cryptonatica affinis Gmelin 1791 moon snail | |
Boreotrophon osawanoensis murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Acila (Truncacila) enpirensis divaricate nutclam | |
Mytilus furanuiensis mussel | |
"Clinocardium nuttallii" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii, "Clinocardium decoratum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii
"Clinocardium nuttallii" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii Conrad 1837 cockle
"Clinocardium decoratum" = Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii Conrad 1837 cockle | |
Mercenaria chitaniana quahog | |
"Spisula (Mactromeris) onnechiuria" = Mactromeris, "Spisula (Pseudocardium) ezodensata" = Pseudocardium
"Spisula (Mactromeris) onnechiuria" = Mactromeris clam
"Spisula (Pseudocardium) ezodensata" = Pseudocardium clam | |
Siliqua elliptica clam |