Aw10, Okubo: Late Campanian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 134.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 128.7° 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:  Pachydiscus awajiensis
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kita-ama
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: possibly National Science Museum, Tokyo (locality record from Obata & Matsumoto, 1963)
Metadata
Database number:176808
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-03-03 01:16:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-03 01:16:27
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]