Kaga City (Loc. 13): Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinidae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1896
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella yoshidai
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Cultellus izumoensis Yokoyama 1923
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys hanzawae
Mizuhopecten kimurai (Yokoyama 1925)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara makiyamai
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokuriku
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 136.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 133.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Daishoji
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.
Metadata
Database number:161502
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-06 22:03:36 Last modified:2014-09-06 22:03:36
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-06 22:03:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52618. H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic Elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. The Science reports of the Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]