Sampling Localities IV/V, Hijikara Formation, Near Ohta, Japan: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Buliminidae
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
Globorotaliidae
Globigerinidae
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gyroidina orbicularis d'Orbigny 1865
Bolivinitidae
Uvigerinidae
unclassified
Lishkeia argent. hirasei
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Yoldiidae
Yoldia similis Kuroda and Habe 1952
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Malletiidae
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Tindariidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 139.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 138.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kakegawa Formation:Hijikara
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Overlies the Horinouchi Formation, interbedded with the T-3 tuff layer, thickly bedded.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified silty mudstone
Secondary lithology: tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: thick bedded mudstone interbedded with T-3 tuff. Figure 1 of paper illustrates this formation as coarse-grained siltstone grading to the southeast into a fine-grained siltstone. This formation grades to the northwest into the fine grained sandstone of the Ukari fm.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: This formation was said to be deposited on a slope and in a geosynclinal trough in front of the shelf.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: There were 200-1500 individual forams present in each sample. The number of mollusc individuals per sample is not reported. Forams were extracted from blocks of sediment weighing 1-2kg each.
Taxonomic list comments: Molluscs reported are all observed taxa in the given area. Forams in list are only those that were analyzed for oxygen isotope ratios and include only the most common foram species.
Metadata
Also known as:Samples 30, 312,313, and 315
Database number:45528
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:K. Bulinski Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-10-29 12:10:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-29 12:10:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

11828. K. Chinzei and M. Aoshima. 1976. Marine Thermal Structure of the Plio-Pleistocene Warm Water in Central Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 19(3):179-203 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]