Usagi-zawa, Kamiyokoze Fm: Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastrea sp. (Blainville 1830)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
? Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Coeloria sp. Edwards and Haime 1848
Physophyllia sp. Duncan 1884
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Hemifusus sp. (Swainson 1840)
unclassified
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae
Miogypsina sp. Sacco 1893
Lepidocyclinidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 139.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 136.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kamiyokoze
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of Kamiyokoze
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:155183
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-03-31 09:25:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-07-01 09:25:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
50586. J. Arai. 1957. Preliminary Remarks on some Miocene Reef Corals from the Kamiyokoze Formation, Chichibu Basin, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 63(746) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]