Kuroiwa: Serravallian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Provannidae
Amano and Little 2014
Bivalvia - Venerida - Vesicomyidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Niigata
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 138.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 135.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Serravallian
Age range of interval: 13.82 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ogaya
Stratigraphy comments: uppermost middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: Fossil hydrocarbon seep deposits
Environment:deep-water indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kita-Kuroiwa Quarry
Database number:205156
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-10-07 19:05:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-10-07 19:05:30
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

70393. K. Amano and S. Kiel. 2011. Fossil Adulomya (Vesicomyidae, Bivalvia) from Japan. The Veliger 51(2):76-90 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

70446 K. Amano and C. T. S. Little. 2014. Miocene abyssochrysoid gastropod Provanna from Japanese seep and whale-fall sites. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(1):163-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]