Hikoshima: Chattian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
Nagao 1928
Osteichthyes - Suliformes - Plotopteridae
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]