Hd0001 - Hidaka area [lower Yezo Gp]: Early Albian, Japan
collected by Shikama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina sp. D'Orbigny 1850
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 142.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.1° North, 173.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Early Albian
Age range of interval: 113.2 - 110.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown formation in the Yezo Gp. AGE: Lower Albian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From limestone lenses, 5-7 m thick, 7 m, apart from one another in the lower part of the Yezo Gp.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thin alternations of sandstone and siliceous shale with intercalations of two lenses of Orbitolina-bearing limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Shikama
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: T. Shikama. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods; other taxa (namely bivalves and foraminifera) often present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91251
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-13 15:54:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-13 15:54:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

30704. T. Kase. 1984. Early Cretaceous marine and brackish-water Gastropoda from Japan 1-262 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]