Shobara, San-in, Japan: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Limida - Limidae
Limatula sp. Wood 1839
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis sp. Sassi 1827
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mizuhopecten cf. kimurai (Yokoyama 1925)
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Cardiliidae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Corbiculidae
Bivalvia - Venerida
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Saxolucina k-hataii
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya cuneiformis Böhm 1915
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Solemyidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculidae
Acila submirabilis Makiyama 1926
Ennucula sp. Iredale 1931
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Sinum yabei Otuka 1934
Euspira meisensis (Makiyama 1926)
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Echinophoria etchuensis (Hatai and Nisiyama 1949)
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Tateiwaia tateiwai (Makiyama 1936)
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 133.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° North, 130.7° 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
Help provided by Mariko Kura
Metadata
Database number:44961
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-23 03:22:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-23 03:22:50
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]