Motomiya: Oligocene - Early Miocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Wakayama County:Higashimiuro
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 135.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 132.9° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Paleogene - Neogene Epoch: Oligocene - Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4 - Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Oligocene - Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ukekawa-Muro
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:205008
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-10-02 20:21:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-10-02 20:21:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

70363. H. Natori. 1964. Some molluscan fossils from the Tertiary Muro Group in the Kii Peninsula, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 55(472):247-255 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]