Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.1° N, 127.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 127.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shinzato Formation (Shimajiri Group), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• Shinzato member (now formation) spans calcareous nannoplankton zones CN12b just to the base of CN13, and planktonic foram zones PL5 and PL6 (UjiiĆ©, 1994), indicating a Gelasian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, tuffaceous, gray, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Raymond A. Saplis; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1957. Tertiary and Pleistocene Brachiopods of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 314(A):1-20 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42185: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.07.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Conus cf. litteratus" = Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus
"Conus cf. litteratus" = Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 |