Iwayamae, Tamatsukuri-town, Yatsuka-gun: Langhian, Japan
collected by Y. Tai

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 133.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.0° North, 130.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kimachi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Kimachi Formation underlies the Fujina (Huzina) Formation. Age of Fujina formation constrained to N11 planktonic foraminifera zone by Yanagisawa 1990, so Langhian age assigned here.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Lower part of overlying Fujina formation deposited in outer neritic zone (50-200 m depth) on the basis of benthic foraminifera.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Y. Tai
Metadata
Database number:179848
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-02 19:32:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-02 19:32:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

59662. T. Kobayashi. 1960. Some Miocene nautiloids from Shimane and Toyama prefectures, west Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 4:117-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]