Motomiya: Oligocene - Early Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Protobranchia
- Solemyidae
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Bivalvia
- Venerida
- Veneridae
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Pitar kotoi n. sp.
Natori 1964
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Pitar hataii n. sp.
Natori 1964
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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] |