Ashiya 3 [Sakamizu Formation]: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira meisensis (Makiyama 1926)
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
Nagao 1928
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 130.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 127.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:Sakamizu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Sakamizu Fm. AGE: Listed as lower Miocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but apparently shallow marine siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Only includes Naticidae. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with taxa assigned to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:78436
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-06 20:11:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-06 20:11:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

26376. R. Majima. 1989. Cenozoic fossil Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Japan. Bulletins of American Paleontology 96(331):1-159 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

61666 T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part II. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12(1):11-140 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]