Hiradoko, Noto Peninsula: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Cylindrophyllia minima (Yabe and Eguchi 1937)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten albicans Schröter 1802
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Callista chinensis (Holten 1802)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 137.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 120 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ~120 ka (Th/U)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: shell bed
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: water depth of about 40 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89416
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-19 01:37:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-19 01:37:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29981. A. Omura. 1980. Uranium-series age of the Hiradoko and Uji shell beds, Noto Peninsula, central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 117:247-253 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]