Kitazawa, Toyoma-cho, Tome-gun, Miyagi Prefecture (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.7° N, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 117.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toyoma Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by K. Nakazawa

Primary reference: K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell. 1968. Permian bivalves of Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 35(1):1-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114535: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pseudopermophorus uedai n. sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella toyomensis n. sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968 clam
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten "sp. b" M'Coy 1851 scallop