Kwantô: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Limida - Limidae
Lima lima (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Scapharca) granosa (Linnaeus 1758)
Arca (Barbatia) fusca (Bruguiére 1792)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer bilocularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea crenulifera Sowerby 1873
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea gigas Thunberg 1793
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Solenidae
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
Saxicava arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Venerida - Mactridae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Petricola lapicida (Gmelin 1792)
unclassified
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Dosinia japonica (Reeve 1850)
Bivalvia - Venerida - Chamidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya arenaria Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gastropoda - Calyptraeidae
    = Crepidula (Bostrycapulus) gravispinosus Kuroda and Habe 1950
Okutaini 2000
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus luhuanus Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Prodotiidae
Engina menkeana (Dunker 1860)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin 1791)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
    = Cypraea (Purpuradusta) gracilis Gaskoin 1848
Okutaini 2000
Subspecies of C. (Purpuradusta) gracilis
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Haliotidae
unclassified
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 131.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From raised beach deposits.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified not reported
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Presumably unlithified.
Environment:foreshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96943
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-13 18:30:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-13 18:30:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
33103. S. Nomura. 1932. Mollusca from the raised beach deposits of the Kwantô region. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 15(2):65-141 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

33433 T. Okutaini. 2000. Marine mollusks of Japan 1-1173 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]