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 | |
Turritella yoshidai turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys hanzawae scallop
Mizuhopecten kimurai Yokoyama 1925 scallop | |
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinidae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1896 requiem shark |