MMHF 5-00001 turtle specimen: Toarcian, Japan
collected by Mr. Tadashi Fujinaga, Mr. Hideo Ishida 1986, 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Crocodylomorpha
1 specimen
MMHF 5-00002
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hasegawa et al. 1998
Osteichthyes - Testudinata
Hasegawa et al. 1998 1 specimen
MMHF 5-00001
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 131.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 154.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Toarcian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3
Key time interval: Toarcian
Age range of interval: 184.2 - 174.7 m.y. ago
Age estimate: minimum 182.5 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nishinakayama
Local section:Ishimachi Local bed:95
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphy comments: Precise level unknown, estimated based on geochemical fingerprinting with 93.33% confidence that both fossils were derived from strata above the T-OAE interval. The geographic provenance of MMHF 5-00001 is also known to be between outcrop sites Em1 and E0 within Eragawa at a point roughly equivalent to 95 m of the Ishimachi section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ex situ mudstone cobbles
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:2 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mr. Tadashi Fujinaga, Mr. Hideo Ishida Collection dates:1986, 1989
Collection method comments: The specimens were collected ex situ from the bed of Eragawa by Mr. Tadashi Fujinaga (MMHF 5-00001) in 1989 and the late Mr. Hideo Ishida (MMHF 5-00002) in 1986, and subsequently donated to the Mine City Museum of History and Folklore (MMHF).
Metadata
Also known as:Toyotacho, Yamaguchi, Toyoda, Eragawa
Database number:236219
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2024-09-18 13:06:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2024-09-18 13:06:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

89496. B. T. Breeden and K. Izumi. 2023. Geochemical fingerprinting of fossils with uncertain stratigraphic provenance: A case study from the Lower Jurassic Nishinakayama Formation (Yamaguchi, Japan). Evolving Earth 1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

89549 Y. Hasegawa, M. Manabe, H. Hirano and F. Takahashi. 1998. A turtle from the Early Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi, Japan. Memoirs of the Natural Sciences Museum of Tokyo 31(1):67-72 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]