Chinomi River CU-CM, Urakawa, sample CU07 (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.2° N, 142.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 134.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: U0 Member (Urakawa Formation), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• sample CU07, Squinabollum fossilis zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified claystone

• claystone with thin layers of fine tuff and sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: Y. Taketani. 1982. Cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Urakawa and Obira areas, Hokkaido. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Serie 2: Geology 52:1-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96029: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.05.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
Amphipyndax "sp. A" Foreman 1966 radiolarian
Amphipyndax stocki Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Acropyramididae
Bathropyramis campbelli Taketani 1982 radiolarian
Cornutella cretacea Taketani 1982 radiolarian
Cornutella californica Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
var. A and B
 Nassellaria - Neosciadiocapsidae
Squinabolella putahensis Pessagno 1969 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
"Stichomitra manifesta" = Novodiacanthocapsa manifesta
"Stichomitra manifesta" = Novodiacanthocapsa manifesta Foreman 1978 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Artostrobiidae
Theocampe apicata Foreman 1971 radiolarian
Theocampe yaoi Taketani 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Solenotryma cf. dacryodes Foreman 1968 radiolarian
? Eucyrtidium matsumotoi Taketani 1982 radiolarian
Stichomitra foraminosa Taketani 1982 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -
Lithatractus pusillus Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum cortinaensis Pessagno 1973 radiolarian