Kugushima Island, Hinoshima Formation, loc. K1002: Early Santonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 130.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 129.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Santonian Inoceramid zone:  Inoceramus amakusensis
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Himenoura Formation:Hinoshima
Local section:Kugushima Island Local bed:36.7 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Inoceramus amakusensis, from the lowermost part of the formation indicates early Santonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy mudstone
Environment:deltaic indet.
Geology comments: shallow-marine depositional environment: bay-head delta system, bottomsets (bay)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:115277
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:G. Palazzo Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-31 18:32:13 Last modified:2026-09-16 12:54:13
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-08-31 18:32:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37311. T. Kumagae, H. Maeda, and T. Komatsu. 2011. Paleoecology of Inoceramus amakusensis Nagao et Matsumoto, 1940 (Bivalvia) in a Late Cretaceous shallow clastic sea: The Himenoura Group, Kyushu, Japan. Cretaceous Research 32:738-749 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]