Usagi-zawa, Kamiyokoze Fm (Miocene of Japan)

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
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Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae
Miogypsina sp. Sacco 1893
Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Coeloria sp." = Platygyra, "Physophyllia sp." = Pectinia, Cyphastrea sp.
"Coeloria sp." = Platygyra Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
"Physophyllia sp." = Pectinia Oken 1815 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
? Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Hemifusus sp." = Volema (Hemifusus)
"Hemifusus sp." = Volema (Hemifusus) Swainson 1840 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam