Todoronotaki, Kahoku-cho, Yunoki Formation, Kochi: Late Barremian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Venerida - Neomiodontidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 133.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.5° North, 142.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Late Barremian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yunoki
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the formation, "Costocyrena bed"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: dark-gray siltstone
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: brackish-water environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67148
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-10 03:32:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-10 03:32:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

19151. T. Kozai. 1986. Early Cretaceous Pulsidis (Bivalvia) from Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 144:479-489 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]