Ponbetsu (Mikasa) : Albian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
22 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira tanabei Kiel et al. 2008
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Solemyidae
60 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.8° North, 150.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Albian
Age range of interval: 113.2 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:116906
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:D. Wellmanns
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-14 02:04:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-09-14 02:04:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37609. S. Kiel, K. Amano, and R. G. Jenkins. 2008. Bivalves from Cretaceous cold-seep deposits on Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(3):525-537 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/S. Nurnberg]