Where: Japan (32.7° N, 132.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 127.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Okinoshima Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Okinoshima Fm, which regionally overlies the Middle Eocene Hashima Fm, and underlying the Lower Iojima Fm (Late Eocene). THICKNESS: From portion of formation that attains a thickness of ~200 m. AGE: Late Eocene, based on molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper part of formation.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: A. Mizuno (c. 1964). REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, unknown.
Primary reference: A. Mizuno. 1964. Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan. Geological Survey of Japan Report 204 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70920: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Colpospira yabei turret shell | |
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Volutospina japonica Nagao 1928 volute | |
Pseudoperissolax yokoyamai murex snail | |
Mazzalina ? miikensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula hizenensis nut clam | |
Pholadomya takashimensis, "Pholadomya "margaritacea"" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea
"Pholadomya "margaritacea"" = Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea Sowerby 1821 clam | |
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Pitar kyushuensis venus clam | |
Angulus sp. Megerle 1811 tellin clam | |
Solena sp. Mörch 1853 clam | |
Venericardia okinoshimensis n. sp., "Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica
Venericardia okinoshimensis n. sp. clam
"Venericardia nipponica" = Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica Yokoyama 1911 clam |