MS04, Minato section, Awaji Island: Late Campanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 134.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 128.6° 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 Ammonoid zone:  Pravitoceras sigmoidale
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Seidan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular lithified mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Niigata University
Metadata
Database number:176789
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-03-02 22:23:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-02 22:23:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

58336. K. Yoshino and A. Matsuoka. 2016. Mode of occurrence and taphonomy of the heteromorph ammonite Pravitoceras sigmoidale Yabe from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group, Japan. Cretaceous Research 62:74-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]