Simazaki, Himi-mati, Toyama: Gelasian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Frenulinidae
Pictothyris picta (Dillwyn 1817)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Terebratalia coreanica (Adams and Reeve 1850)
Tisimania sp. Hatai 1938
Diestothyris frontalis (Middendorff 1849)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Laqueidae
Laqueus rubellus (Sowerby 1846)
Laqueus proprius Yabe and Hatai 1934
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dallinidae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Hemithyris psittacea (Gmelin 1790)
Hemithyris woodwardi (Adams 1863)
Hemithyris psittacea woodwardi
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 137.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 136.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Junicho
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: From the "Himi beds" of Otuka, now the Junicho Formation. Junicho Formation is mostly Gelasian (uppermost part is Calabrian) on the basis of planktonic foram and diatom biostratigraphy, and tephrostratigraphy.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Lithology description: Alteration of sand and fine sand, pumiceous and sometimes cross-bedded
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190755
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-12-16 22:51:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-16 22:51:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

64049. K. M. Hatai. 1940. The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku Imperial University, Series 2 20:1-413 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]