Hosoura port, Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture: Early Sinemurian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
9 specimens
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Nipponoteuthidae
33 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.7° North, 172.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Early Sinemurian Ammonoid zone:  Arnioceras yokoyamai
Age range of interval: 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shizukawa Formation:Hosoura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of Unit Ha
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly lithified muddy sandstone
Lithology description: Sandstone with mud matrix. Belemnites found in pebbly lag deposits.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: University Museum, Hokkaido University, Japan (UHR)
Metadata
Database number:156003
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-06 23:52:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-06 23:52:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

51080. Y. Iba, S. I. Sano, and J. Mutterlose. 2014. The early evolutionary history of belemnites: new data from Japan. PLoS One 9(5):e95632 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]