Mount Kikuishi, Inugatake: Late Pliensbachian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Amaltheus stokesi (Sowerby 1818)
Amaltheus margaritatus de Montford 1808
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Toyama
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 137.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.0° North, 165.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Late Pliensbachian
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kuruma Formation:Teradani
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: All from float, horizon unknown but formation assumed based on age of fossils
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:222655
Authorizer:B. Allen Enterer:B. Allen
Created:2021-10-11 07:16:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-10-11 07:16:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

78334. K. Nakada, M. Goto, C. Meister and A. Matsuoka. 2021. The late Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) ammonoid Amaltheus in Japan: systematics and biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology 95(5):1004-1021 [B. Allen/B. Allen]