Onda-no-tani, Kimitu-gun, Kazusa Province: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida
Kurakithyris nipponensis (Yokoyama 1910)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 140.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kazusa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Based on map in Ito (1994) almost certainly comes from the upper highstand part of the Kazusa Group, dated at 0.83-0.57 Ma by volcanic ash layers.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
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:190827
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-12-19 00:10:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-19 00:10:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

64142. K. Hatai. 1946. Kurakithyris, Tertiary brachiopod genus from central Honsyu, Japan. Proceedings of the Japan Academy 22:98-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]