Tanoura Area, Kawaguchi Formation, Kyushu (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Kumamoto, Japan (32.3° N, 130.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 132.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kawaguchi Formation, Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• Lower Neocomian

• 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 40559: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae