Toyoda Area, Higashinagano Formation, Honshu: Sinemurian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) onoi
? Cardium naganoense
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Luciniola hasei
Sphaeriola nipponica
Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia orientalis
Cardinia toriyamai Hayami 1958
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Praeconia cf. tetragona
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Tutcheria itoi Hayami 1969
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Prosogyrotrigoniidae
Prosogyrotrigonia inouyei
original and current combination Trigonia (Prosogyrotrigonia)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula praenipponica
Plicatula subcircularis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) kobayashii Hayami 1959
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) inequivalvis (Sowerby 1819)
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cf. cygnipes (Young and Bird 1822)
Meleagrinella japonica
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Antiquilima nagatoensis Hayami 1959
recombined as Antiquilima (Antiquilima) nagatoensis
Plagiostoma kobayashii
Plagiostoma matsumotoi
Ctenostreon japonicum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
? Aequipecten toyorensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium cf. calvum
= Camptonectes
Entolium cf. lunare (Roemer 1839)
= corneolum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea toyorensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha (Actinostreon) sazanami
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) toyorensis Hayami 1959
Parallelodon (Cosmetodon) infraliassicus
Parallelodon (? Palaeocucullaea) subnavicellus
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus magatama
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Dacryomya) toriyamae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Yamaguchi
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 131.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.2° North, 139.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Toyora Formation:Higashinagano
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy "shale"
Secondary lithology:fine sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:40560
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-25 06:34:48 Last modified:2004-06-29 15:34:49
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-25 06:34:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10664. 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]