Shima Area, Ryoseki Group, Honshu (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Mie, Japan (34.3° N, 136.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 139.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ryoseki Group, Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• Lower Neocomian

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate and sandstone

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 40491: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae