Section 8, bed 7 [Hinoshima Fm]: Early Campanian, Japan
collected by Komatsu et al.
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Protobranchia
- Nuculidae
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Acila hokkaidoensis
(Nagao 1932)
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Bivalvia
- Venerida
- Veneridae
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Aphrodina sp.
Conrad 1869
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Megatrigoniidae
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 32.5° North, 130.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 125.2° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hinoshima | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hinoshima Fm, which locally unconformably overlies granitic rocks, and is overlain by the Amura Fm (Campanian) AGE: Late Santonian-Campanian. Here assigned to the Early Campanian on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 7, near the top of the section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified conglomeratic mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Conglomeratic shelly mudstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified on the basis of figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Slope, siliciclastic marine. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collectors: | Komatsu et al. |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Komatsu et al. REPOSITORY: KMSP, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Japan. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia and ammonoidea. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identfications. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Loc. 3001 | ||
| Database number: | 82384 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-26 19:30:30 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-26 19:30:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27747. | T. Komatsu, M. Ono, H. Naruse and T. Kumagae. 2008. Upper Cretaceous depositional environments and bivalve assemblages of far-east Asia: the Himenoura Group, Kyushu, Japan. Cretaceous Research 29:489-508 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |