Locality 2805, Hongo, Goshoura Island: Early Cenomanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Electridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° North, 138.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
Key time interval: Early Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Enokuchi Member:Gannohana
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Gannohana Member contains Marriella oehlerti and Graysonites adkinsi (ammonoids). In the southwesterly adjacent Shishi Island, these ammonoids and Graysonites cf. fountaini are found in the Goshoura Group, and suggest an early Cenomanian age (Matsumoto, 1954; Matsumoto and Amano, 1960).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science (Palaeontology Department), Tsukuba (NMNS-PA)
Metadata
Database number:218161
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2021-02-19 22:23:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-02-19 22:23:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
75667. M. H. Dick, T. Komatsu, R. Takashima and A. N. Ostrovsky. 2014. A mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) shell-rubble bryozoan fauna from the Goshoura Group, Kyushu, Japan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12:401-425 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]