Mitarai, Shokawa-mura, Miratai formation: Callovian - Oxfordian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
2 elements
3 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan County:Gifu-ken
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 136.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.9° North, 150.0° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic
Stage: Callovian - Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Callovian - Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Mitarai
Stratigraphy comments: Mitarai formation of the Kuzuryu subgroup of the Tetori group, Callovian or Oxforidan (Middle or Late Jurassic) age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified silty "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:133509
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-14 09:53:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-14 09:53:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
42990. M. Goto. 1994. Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic fish faunas of the Japanese Islands. The Island Arc 3(1994):247-254 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]