Tomisato, Tsurikake Fm: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Aphrocallistidae
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Cerithidea sp. Swainson 1840
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Monia sp. Gray 1850
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819
Bivalvia - Venerida - Ungulinidae
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 42.1° North, 139.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 135.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tsurikake
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Tuff breccia or agglomeratic conglomerate, occasionally interbedded with tuffaceous coarse grained sandstone in the upper part.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173044
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-08 07:44:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-08 07:44:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
56251. S. Uozumi. 1966. Neogene Molluscan Fauna in Hokkaido : Part II. Description of the Okushiri Fauna Associated with Vicarya, from Okushiri Island, Southwest Hokkaido. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and mineralogy 13(2):139-164 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]