Locality 1 (Arakida Formation): Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
r category
r category
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
r category
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp. (Cossmann 1888)
r category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
r category
Cephalopoda - Octopoda - Argonautidae
r category
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
c category
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Malletiidae
a category
Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842
r category
Yoldia sagittalia Yokoyama 1925
r category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
r category
Macoma sp. Leach 1819
r category
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816
r category
Bivalvia - Limida - Limidae
r category
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Nagano County:Yamadakawachi
Coordinates: 35.8° North, 137.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 135.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tomikusa Formation:Arakida
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: From mudstone, overlaying thick alternating beds of sandstone and mudstone in the middle part of the Arakida Formation, Tomikusa Group. Early Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Mudstone
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: From faunal composition this looks like an offshore-deep-water environment (100-250 m).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository of material is not known.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for a depauperate fauna. Nomenclature appears to be of good quality.
Metadata
Database number:51576
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-08 11:09:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2006-06-08 11:09:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

13720. A. Suzuki. 1995. Cephalopod fossil from the miocene Tomikusa Group in the southern part of Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22:115-120 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]