Sample B (siltstone facies), [Akasawa Silt]: Pleistocene, Japan
collected by Hayasaka

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Potamididae
F category
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
R category
Gastropoda - Naticidae
F category
Tectonatica janthostomoides Kuroda and Habe 1949
R category
Gastropoda - Trochidae
R category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Corbiculidae
R category
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
R category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
R category
F category
F category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
F category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
F category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Fulvia mutica (Reeve 1844)
C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
F category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
C category
F category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Anatinellidae
V category
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
R category
R category
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
R category
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 137.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 137.1° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Toyohashi Formation:Akasawa Silt
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Akasawa Silt, which overlies the Takatsuka Gravel, and is overlain by the Toshima Sand. AGE: Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal facies of the formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siltstone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Hayasaka
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: S. Hayasaka. REPOSITORY: Possibly Tohoku University.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:96947
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-13 20:09:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-13 20:09:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
33104. S. Hayasaka. 1962. Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 195-217 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]