Teradani River, Asahi: Pliensbachian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Toyama County:Shimoniikawa
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 137.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.3° North, 166.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Pliensbachian
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kuruma Formation:Teradani Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "According to Sato (1955), Amaltheus sp. and Canavaria sp. from the Teradani Formation show a late Pliensbachian age" (Goto 1983)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
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:201501
Authorizer:A. Dunhill Enterer:B. Allen
Created:2019-05-11 04:58:08 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-05-11 04:58:08
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
68962. M. Goto. 1983. Some bivalves from the Lower Jurassic Kuruma Group of Central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan (New Series) 130:79-84 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]