Aso Yoshikuma coal mine, Usui-town: Lutetian, Japan
collected by H. Matsushita

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 130.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 126.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Lutetian
Age range of interval: 48.07 - 41.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Nogata Formation:Oyaki
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Eocene" in Kobayashi (1956) but assigned to middle Eocene (Lutetian, zone P12) on the basis of fission-track dating in Ozaki & Hamasaki, 1991.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:H. Matsushita
Collection method comments: Repository: University Museum, University of Tokyo (UMUT)
Metadata
Database number:184299
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:V. Maciel
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-02-14 14:28:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-02-14 14:28:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

19609. T. Kobayashi. 1956. An interesting new form of the Aturiidae from the Paleogene of Northern Kyushu. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 23:243-245 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]