Omagari, Abeshinai River, near mouth of Osoushinai River [Omagari Fm]: Campanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
21 specimens
(9 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 142.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.8° North, 130.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Omagari
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Omagari Fm, which regionally overlies the Nishichirashinai Fm (Coniacian-Santonian) and is overlain by the Osoushinai Fm (Campanian). AGE: Campanian, for which biostratigraphic justification is not stated. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From facies brecciated at this locality.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified muddy,silty breccia
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Weakly consolidated mudstone and siltstone clasts of the brecciated facies. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Hydrocarbon seep.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500
Collection size:21 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but presumably includes Y. Hikida. REPOSITORY: University Museum, University of Tokyo (NMUT).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to brachiopods mentioned in text. Other co-occuring taxa are not reported in text. These may include bivalves (Kiel et al. 2008) and gastropods (Kaim et al. (2009), and a general discussion of the fauna is found in Hikida et al. (2003).
Metadata
Database number:95697
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-24 07:38:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-24 07:38:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

32508. A. Kaim, A. Bitner, and R. G. Y. Jenkins Hikida. 2010. A monospecific assemblage of terebratulide brachiopods in the Upper Cretaceous seep deposits of Omagari, Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(1):73-84 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]