Izumo, San-in: Serravallian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Gastropoda - Patellida - Acmaeidae
"Acmaea" sp. Eschscholtz 1830
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Sinum yabei Otuka 1934
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Surcurites cryptoconoides
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Neptunea sp. Röding 1798
Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
ssp. fujinaensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
? Ocenebra sp. Leach in Gray 1847
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Sydaphera sp. Iredale 1929
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Protorotella sp. Makiyama 1925
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Sareptidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculidae
Acila submirabilis Makiyama 1926
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Placopecten sp. (Verrill 1897)
two subspecies
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Chlamys kaneharai (Yokoyama 1926)
Mizuhopecten sp. Masuda 1963
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
sp. A and B
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus grayanus Dunker 1853
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya cuneiformis Böhm 1915
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae
Pandora sp. Bruguière 1797
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma annulata (Reeve 1850)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Clinocardium shinjiense (Yokoyama 1923)
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
Bivalvia - Venerida - Mactridae
Spisula cf. voyi (Gabb 1866)
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Protothaca sp. Dall 1902
"Chione" sp. von Mühlfield 1811
Callithaca sp. Dall 1902
Callista chinensis (Holten 1802)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 132.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 130.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Serravallian
Age range of interval: 13.82 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Age given as middle to late Middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:foreshore Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Geology comments: Neritic environment
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:44962
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-23 03:24:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-23 03:24:42
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]