MS35, Akkeshi Bay: Late Maastrichtian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus flexuosus Matsumoto 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 144.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.2° North, 136.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Senpohshi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Maastrichtian, chron 31n.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba
Metadata
Database number:167908
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-04-06 21:41:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-06 21:41:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

54885. Y. Shigeta, T. Nishimura, and K. Nifuku. 2015. Middle and late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Akkeshi Bay area, eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan and their biostratigraphic implications. Paleontological Research 19:107-127 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]