Ainonai-Mura, Ainonai Fm: Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Amathinidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Sareptidae
Portlandia kakimii Uozumi 1957
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Serripes laperousii (Deshayes 1839)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys cosibensis (Yokoyama 1911)
spp. hanzawae
Chlamys kaneharai (Yokoyama 1926)
Swiftopecten swiftii (Bernardi 1858)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Hemithyris psitacea (Gmelin 1790)
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 143.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 140.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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:Ainonai
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:171580
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-13 09:08:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-13 09:08:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
55785. U. Satoru, F. Tsutomu, and M. Masaru. 1966. Neogene Molluscan Fauna in Hokkaido : Part III. Description of the Ainonai Fauna Associated with Desmostylus cf. minor Nagao, from Kitami District, East Hokkaido. Contribution from the Department of the Geology and Mineralogy (971) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]