Kaikuma River: Tortonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
1 specimen
HMG-382
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Adipicola sp. Dautzenberg 1927
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 140.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Karumai
Stratigraphy comments: The age of the Karumai Formation is assigned to the late middle Mio- cene to the early late Miocene (12.5–9.7 Ma; Motoyama and Kawamura, 2009).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: mainly of hard shale frequently intercalated by turbiditic mudstone and sandstone beds
Environment:basinal (siliceous)
Geology comments: abyssal fan; whale fall
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:193941
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-07 13:42:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-07 13:42:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

39867. R. G. Jenkins, A. Kaim, K. Amano, K. Sakurai, and K. Matsubara. 2018. A new Miocene whale-fall community dominated by the bathymodiolin mussel Adipicola from the Hobetsu area, Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research 22(2):105-111 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]