Where: Japan (36.0° N, 139.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 136.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kamiyokoze Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Lower part of Kamiyokoze
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Arai. 1957. Preliminary Remarks on some Miocene Reef Corals from the Kamiyokoze Formation, Chichibu Basin, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 63(746) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 31.03.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Globothalamea | |
Miogypsina sp. Sacco 1893 | |
Foraminifera | |
Anthozoa | |
"Coeloria sp." = Platygyra Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
"Physophyllia sp." = Pectinia Oken 1815 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
? Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Hemifusus sp." = Volema (Hemifusus)
"Hemifusus sp." = Volema (Hemifusus) Swainson 1840 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam |