Higashi-Owada, Kimitsu-Gun: Gelasian - Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Frenulinidae
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 139.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 139.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian - Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Gelasian - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age given as "Neogene" but likely Pleistocene as Takayanagi (1951) reports the Kokumoto Formation (Middle Pleistocene in age) from the same general area.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment: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: Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tohoku University, Sendai (IGPS)
Metadata
Database number:233104
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2024-01-13 17:08:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2024-01-13 17:08:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

87198. K. Hatai. 1948. New Tertiary Brachiopoda from Japan. Journal of Paleontology 22:494-499 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]