Toyora, Protogrammoceras nipponicum zone, Locality (7) Sakuraguchidani V. 10d1 (Jurassic to of Japan)

Where: Yamaguchi, Japan (34.3° N, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 139.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nb Member (Nishinakayama Formation), Late/Upper Pliensbachian to Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 182.0 Ma)

• Locality belongs to the Protogrammoceras nipponicum zone. The Nishinakayama Fm attains about 300m in maximum thickness, and is lithostratigraphically subdivided into three members, namely Na, Nb (black shales with intercalations of fine sandstone; 160m thick), and Nc in upward sequence.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty, sandy shale

• Lower to Middle Jurassic shallow marine (partly brackish?) clastic deposits
• silty-sandy shale with sandstone bands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Tanabe. 1991. Early Jurrasic Macrofauna of the Oxygen-Depleted Epicontinental Marin Basin in the Toyora Area, West Japan. Saito Ho-on Kai Special Publication 3:147-161 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38182: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ammonoida indet.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida -
Ammonitina indet.
Ammonitina indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
Aptychi (isolated)
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Fuciniceras nakayamense, Protogrammoceras yabei, Protogrammoceras nipponicum, Protogrammoceras sp., Harpoceras inouyei, Harpoceras okadai
Protogrammoceras sp. Spath 1913 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Dactylioceras helianthoides
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras "sp. A"
Lytoceras "sp. A" Suess 1865 ammonite
sp. A
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Pseudomytiloides matsumotoi