SD04, Sada Limestone: Campanian - Maastrichtian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Hokkaidoconchidae
Kaim et al. 2014
Gastropoda
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kochi
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 132.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 126.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian - Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Campanian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shimantogawa Formation:Nakamura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Cold seep in turbidite deposits
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:183420
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, J. Marcot Enterer:M. Krause, J. Marcot
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-12-20 09:31:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-20 09:31:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

61247. T. Nobuhara, D. Onda, T. Sato, H. Aosawa, T. Ishimura, A. Ijiri, U. Tsunogai, N. Kikuchi, Y. Kondo and S. Kiel. 2016. Mass occurrence of the enigmatic gastropod Elmira in the Late Cretaceous Sada Limestone seep deposit in southwestern Shikoku, Japan. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 90:701-722 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

58808 A. Kaim, R. G. Jenkins, K. Tanabe and S. Kiel. 2014. Mollusks from late Mesozoic seep deposits, chiefly in California. Zootaxa 3861(5):401-440 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]