Tano, Miyazak-gun [Tano Fm]: Messinian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Janthinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Batillus) priscus Ozawa and Tomida 1996
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Paphia exilis Shuto 1957
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys miurensis (Yokoyama 1920)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 130.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian Foram zone:  N17
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miyazaki Formation:Tano
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tano Formation of the Miyazaki Group, which is overlain by the Aye Fm (latest Miocene) and Kiyotake Fm (earliest Pliocene). AGE: Messinian (late Miocene), on the basis of foraminiferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within Tano Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but likely siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, as determined from figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated. REPOSITORY: Presumably at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Nagoya University (ESN).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to those treated in the systematic publication and characteristic mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:161784
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-12 09:44:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-09-12 09:44:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52693. S. Tomida and Y. Nakamura. 2001. A new species of Hartungia (Gastropoda: Janthinidae) from late Miocene of Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:217-221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]