Urakawa Area, Hakobuchi Group, Hokkaido (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Hidaka, Japan (42.2° N, 142.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 132.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hakobuchi Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Lower part of Hakobuchi Group

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and fine-grained, sandy siltstone

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 40590: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) elegans" = Sphenoceramus elegans
"Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) elegans" = Sphenoceramus elegans Sokolow 1914 clam
subsp. pseudosulcatus