Hiradoko, Noto Peninsula: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Cylindrophyllia minima (Yabe and Eguchi 1937)
recombined as Peponocyathus minimus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista chinensis (Holten 1802)
recombined as Callista (Callista) chinensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten albicans Schröter 1802
recombined as Pecten (Pecten) albicans
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus japonicus Reeve 1851
recombined as Strombus (Doxander) vittatus japonicus
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 137.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.5° North, 137.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:120 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ~120 ka (Th/U)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: shell bed
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: water depth of about 40 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89416
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-19 01:37:15 Last modified:2010-03-22 04:16:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-19 01:37:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29981. A. Omura. 1980. Uranium-series age of the Hiradoko and Uji shell beds, Noto Peninsula, central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 117:247-253 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]