Aw6, Minato: Late Campanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
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
Local section:Section B Local bed:139.5 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Osaka Museum of Natural History
Metadata
Database number:176804
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:G. Palazzo Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-03-03 00:59:55 Last modified:2026-09-14 11:56:01
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-03 00:59:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

58337. Y. Morozumi. 1985. Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 39:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]