Location 4, Kiyohama-II (Orannai), Cape Soya: Late Campanian, Japan
collected 1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 141.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.3° North, 129.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The lithology and the mode of shell preservation, as well as other fossils, suggest its derivation from the upper part of unit C.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified calcareous siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1980
Collection method comments: Repository: MNH (Natural History Collection of Northern Hoikkaido, c/o T. Miyauchi, Midori 6-Chome, Wakkanai)
Metadata
Database number:165937
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-31 18:15:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-31 18:15:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

54142. T. Matsumoto and T. Miyauchi. 1983. Cretaceous Nautiloids from Hokkaido-III Part 3. Some Nautiloids from the Campanian of Soya, Northern Hokkaido. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 132:220-229 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]