Masuda, San-in: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
unclassified
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculidae
Ennucula sp. Iredale 1931
Acila submirabilis Makiyama 1926
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Latona sp. Schumacher 1817
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Corbiculidae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Cardiliidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys kaneharai (Yokoyama 1926)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium sp. (de Gregorio 1884)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Limida - Limidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Saccostrea sp. Dolfuss and Dautzenberg 1920
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Fulgoraria sp. Schumacher 1817
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira meisensis (Makiyama 1926)
Sinum yabei Otuka 1934
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Tateiwaia tateiwai (Makiyama 1936)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Ischnochitonidae
Lepidozona sp. Pilsbry 1892
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 131.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° North, 129.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Age given as early Middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet. Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Geology comments: Environments ranging from intertidal, eulitoral to sublitoral
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Summary of all mossulscs recovered from area
Metadata
Database number:44958
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-23 03:20:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-23 03:20:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11713.1% 8100K. Takayasu. 1986. Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan. Monograph of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 6:155-169 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/S. Bruning]