Onimarua Quarry, Ofunato City: Visean, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Sanguinolitidae
Hayami and Kase 1977
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Plagiothyridae
    = Littorinides cf. solidum de Koninck 1844
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Gastropoda - Pseudozygopleuridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
Key time interval: Visean
Age range of interval: 346.7 - 330.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hikoroichi Member:H2
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of Viséan.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,coarse,tuffaceous sandstone
Lithology description: A fine- to coarse-grained, iill-sorted, tuffaceous sandstone bed.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: National Science Museum, Tokyo
Metadata
Database number:59832
Authorizer:P. Wagner, A. Dunhill Enterer:P. Wagner, B. Allen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-17 19:59:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-17 19:59:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

17167. T. Kase. 1988. Early Carboniferous (Viséan) gastropods from the Hikoroichi Formation of the Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 149:361-370 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

19109 I. Hayami and T. Kase. 1977. A systematic survey of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Gastropoda and Paleozoic Bivalvia from Japan. University of Tokyo Bulletin 13 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]