Takamatsu ("Mya bed", Takamatsu shell sand facies) [Toshima Sand]: Pleistocene, Japan
collected by Hayasaka

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
F category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Mactridae
V category
C category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
F category
C category
R category
C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sportellidae
R category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
C category
F category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Fulvia mutica (Reeve 1844)
C category
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Solenidae
R category
Bivalvia - Adapedonta - Hiatellidae
V category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
F category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
C category
Pecten (Pecten) albicans (Schröter 1802)
F category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
A category
C category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
R category
R category
R category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Arca boucardi Jousseaume 1894
F category
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
A category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
F category
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
R category
Gastropoda - Naticidae
C category
Gastropoda - Tonnidae
R category
Gastropoda - Calyptraeidae
Siphopatella walshi (Reeve 1859)
R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
F category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
F category
F category
R category
A category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
C category
Siphonalia signum (Reeve 1846)
R category
Babylonia japonica (Reeve 1842)
C category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
F category
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 137.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 137.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:Toshima Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Toshima Sand of the Toyohasi Gp, which overlies the Akasawa SIlt, and is overlain by the Tonami Gravel of the Tahara Gp. AGE: Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the "Mya bed", Takamatsu shell sand facies of the Toshima Sand.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. 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:96970
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-15 17:12:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-15 17:12:49
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]