Kunugidaira Fm - Is-1: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bivalvia - Venerida - Trapezidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 145.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Formation:Kunugidaira
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kunugidaira Fm which lies unconformably above the Early Oligocene Shirasaka Fm of the Shiramizu Gp and below the Goyasu Fm of the Yunagaya Gp (Early Miocene). THICKNESS: From bed within ~40 m section. AGE: Early Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From base of upper unit of Kunugidaira Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Oyster bank below cross-bedded sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification, presumably lithified on the basis of age.
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Intertidal and subtropical mollusca.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably the authors A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and K. Uemura, and A. Obuse. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not authoritative publication, but with species-level and subgenus assignments.
Metadata
Database number:70320
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-21 08:28:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-03-21 08:28:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

23601. A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and A. Obuse. 1995. Plant and molluscan fossil assemblages rom the Lower Miocene Kunugidaira Formation in the southern part of the Joban coal-field. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 101(7):532-548 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]