Shioya Group Kanomatazawa Fm Molluscan Fauna Locality 16: Late/Upper Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Phos iwakianus
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium yokoyamai
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma annulata (Reeve 1850)
recombined as Lucinoma annulatum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma optiva
Dominant species at locality
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia (Cnesterium) notabilis (Yokoyama 1922)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Acila sp. Adams and Adams 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 140.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 138.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shioya Formation:Kanomatazawa Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: middle unit of shioya group, divided into two members, lower and upper.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse lithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology:gray lithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Kanomatazawa formation is composed of conglomerate sandstone siltstone and acidic pyroclastic rocks. Lithology of the upper member is represented by mudstone in the western side whereas it is represented by coarse clastic sediments in the eastern side of the anticline.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Geology comments: This formation is subdivided into the lower and upper members. The two members differ from each other in their distribution as well as their lithological characteristics. The Lower member is distributed in the whole surveyed area showing similar lithology at every place. Distribution of the upper member is separated at the sekiya anticline.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Locality 16
Database number:52239
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Modifier:K. Bulinski Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-08-01 11:33:36 Last modified:2005-08-01 14:33:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-01 11:33:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13978. Y. Iwasaki. 1970. The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs. Journal of the faculty of science, University of Tokyo, Section 2 17(3):351-444 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]