Nakaminato Area, Nakaminato Formation, Honshu (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Ibaraki, Japan (36.3° N, 140.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 129.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nakaminato Formation (Naka Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 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 40235: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Jupiteria (Ezonuculana) mactraeformis Nagao 1932 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae