Hida-Furukawa (WT-03) (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (36.3° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 138.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Inagoe Formation (Tetori Group), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, muddy sandstone

• Tetori Group in the

•region is composed mainly of mudstone, sandstone, and

•conglomerates, and can be divided into six stratigraphic units

•named, in ascending order, the Tanemura, Numamachi, Sugizaki/

•Tochio, Taie, and Inagoe Formations

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: M. Matsukawa and M. Fukui. 2009. Hauterivian-Barremian marine molluscan fauna from the Tetori Group in Japan and late Mesozoic marine transgressions in East Asia. Cretaceous Research 30:615-631 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116150: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 06.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Bivalvia
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 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae