Ks0002 - Kesennuma area [Yokonuma Fm]: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 141.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 146.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Hauterivian - Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Hauterivian - Barremian
Age range of interval: 132.6 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yokonuma
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Yokonuma Fm. AGE: Upper Neocomian; placed here in Hauterivian-Barremian by enterer; justification for age not reported in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Yokonuma Fm; sandstone 2 m thick, interbedded between other sandstones.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dark gray highly calcareous very fine-grained sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: T. Oji, H. Maeda, and T. Kase. 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:91318
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-14 16:42:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-14 16:42:43
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]