Toyora, Protogrammoceras nipponicum zone, Locality (7) Sakuraguchidani V. 10a2: Late Pliensbachian - Early Toarcian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
34 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855
3 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida
Ammonoida indet. (Haeckel 1866)
42 individuals
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida
Ammonitina indet. Hyatt 1889
12 individuals
Aptychi (isolated)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
1 individual
sp. A
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
1 individual
54 individuals
5 individuals
1 individual
Osteichthyes
1 element
Fish scale
Breeden and Izumi 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Yamaguchi
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 131.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 157.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian - Toarcian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2 - Jurassic 3
Key time interval: Late Pliensbachian - Early Toarcian
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 182.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Toyora Formation:Nishinakayama Member:Nb
Local section:(7) Sakuraguchidani V. Local bed:10a2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Locality belongs to the Protogrammoceras nipponicum zone. The Nishinakayama Fm attains about 300m in maximum thickness, and is lithostratigraphically subdivided into three members, namely Na, Nb (black shales with intercalations of fine sandstone; 160m thick), and Nc in upward sequence.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy "shale"
Lithology description: silty-sandy shale with sandstone bands
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Lower to Middle Jurassic shallow marine (partly brackish?) clastic deposits
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:156 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:38180
Authorizer:M. Aberhan, M. Carrano Enterer:S. Nurnberg, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-04-18 01:49:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-18 01:49:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

10253. K. Tanabe. 1991. Early Jurrasic Macrofauna of the Oxygen-Depleted Epicontinental Marin Basin in the Toyora Area, West Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication 3:147-161 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

72283 B. T. Breeden and K. Izumi. 2019. A review of the vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Lower Jurassic Nishinakayama Formation in the Ischimachi district of Toyota Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Firefly Museum of Toyota Town 11:9-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]