IK2715, Pombetsu-gonosawa Creek, Mikasa City: Late Coniacian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.3° North, 139.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Late Coniacian Inoceramid zone:  Inoceramus mihoensis
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kashima
Local section:Ikushunbetsu-Pombetsu Local bed:465.9 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, given as Kashima Formation by Tanabe (2022), which overlies the Turonian Mikasa Formation. AGE: Late Coniacian, based on ammonite and inoceramid biostratigraphy (given as late Coniacian Inoceramus mihoensis zone on strat column, but early-mid Coniacian Inoceramus uwakimensis zone in table). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near top of local regional section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Inshore to nearshore and nearshore to offshore or deeper waters.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Tanabe et al. (1977). REPOSITORY: Dept. of Geology, Kyushu University, Japan.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to representative scaphitid ammonites. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:86992
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:G. Palazzo Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-26 22:29:20 Last modified:2026-09-11 16:49:43
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-26 22:29:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

29266. K. Tanabe. 1977. Mid-Cretaceous scaphitid ammonites from Hokkaido. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 21:11-22 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

82318 K. Tanabe. 2022. Late Cretaceous dimorphic scaphitid ammonoid genus Yezoites from the circum-North Pacific regions. Paleontological Research 26:233-269 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]