Sakihana Tunnel on Route 119: Early Campanian, Japan
collected by Y. Hikada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Octopoda
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.7° North, 130.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Early Campanian Inoceramid zone:  Sphenoceramus naumanni
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo Formation:Osoushinai
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular lithified mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Y. Hikada
Collection method comments: Repository: Nakagawa Museum of Natural History, Nakagawa, Hokkaido, Japan (NMA)
Metadata
Database number:212865
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-21 16:04:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-21 16:04:58
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

73498. K. Tanabe, P. Trask, R. Ross and Y. Hikida. 2008. Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions. Journal of Paleontology 82:398-408 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]