Eisen Area, Shiragi Group, Taikyu Formation (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: South Korea (36.0° N, 128.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 121.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taikyu Formation (Shiragi Group), Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Lower Cretaceous - lower Upper Cretaceous

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: I. Hayami. 1975. A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bulletin (10) [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40033: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigonioididae
 Unionida - Unionidae
Plicatounio (Plicatounio) naktongensis Kobayashi and Suzuki 1936 freshwater mussel
subsp. multiplicatus