Kaga City (Loc. 13) (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Hokuriku, Japan (36.3° N, 136.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 133.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Daishoji Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.

Primary reference: H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic Elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. The Science reports of the Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 161502: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella yoshidai turret shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Mizuhopecten kimurai Yokoyama 1925 scallop
 Solenida - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinidae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1896 requiem shark