Location U12-8A (Hijikata Silt, Kakegawa Gp): Pliocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Protobranchia
- Tindariidae
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Mizuhopecten sp.
Masuda 1963
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Amussiopecten praesignis
(Yokoyama 1922)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Bivalvia
- Venerida
- Veneridae
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shizuoka |
| Coordinates: | 34.8° North, 138.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° North, 137.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Hijikata Silt | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Collection U12-8A comes from a channel structure containing fine sand and molluscan shells. The Hijikata Silt of the Kakegawa Group is Pliocene in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified sandy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fne sand and molluscan shells | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: Taxa suggest depths between 50 and 600 m. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository not known. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Not exhaustive, but representative of common Mollusca. Nomenclature should be of high quality. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Hijikata Silt, Kamiyashiki | ||
| Database number: | 51547 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-07 16:30:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2006-06-07 16:30:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13710. | K. Amano and T. Nobuhara. 1995. A species of Mizuhopecten yessoensis Group from the Kakegawa Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22:103-108 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |