Loc. 1 - Sotohira, Goshonoura islet: Late Albian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 140.9° 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: Late Albian
Age range of interval: 106.3 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Goshonoura Formation:I
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Formation I by Matsumoto, 1938
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: mainly composed of the alternations of red-colored sandstone or mudstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:142306
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-08 18:28:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-08 18:28:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46201. M. Tashiro and K. Takatsuka. 1991. Upper Albian bivalves from the Goshonoura Group. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Series E, Geology 12:1-10 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]