Yuasa Area, Arita Formation, Honshu (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Wakayama, Japan (34.0° N, 135.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 137.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper 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 40659: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sanchuensis pointed nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus aff. subsimplex d'Orbigny 1850 mussel
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea (Neithea) atava Roemer 1839 scallop
syn. with N. (N.) kanmerai
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea (Myopsis) nagaoi Hayami 1966 clam
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Ptychomya densicostata Nagao 1934 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae