Hikoshima: Chattian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Adapedonta
- Hiatellidae
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| Nagao 1928 | ||||||||||
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Osteichthyes
- Suliformes
- Plotopteridae
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| Pelecaniformes? | ||||||||||
| Hasegawa and Ota 1979 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Yamaguchi | County: | Shimonoseki |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 130.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 128.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ashiya | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Orio Sandstone Bed | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: No collection data available as manuscript is in Japanese. Material is reposited in the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, and in Shimonoseki City Archaeological Museum, Shimonoseki. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list is exhaustive for mollusca and includes other groups (Penguins, Sharks etc). Nomenclature is of a high quality. List is reprinted from Hirayama (1956) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 126057 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-03-29 04:51:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-29 04:51:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40950. | Y. Hasegawa. 1977. Early Neogene birds form Honshu and Kyushu, Japan. Proceedings of the first International Congress on Pacific Neogene Stratigraphy, Tokyo 340-341 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 41464 | Y. Hasegawa and M. Ota. 1979. Hikoshima specimens from Orio Sandstone Bed, Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 1:41-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61666 | T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part II. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12(1):11-140 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |