Sobura (NSM-PCL11-73-2) (Cretaceous of Japan)

Also known as Loc. 7 in Matsumoto and Morozumi 1980

Where: Japan (34.4° N, 135.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 124.4° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus aff. P. subcompressus zone, Azenotani Mudstone Member (Mutsuo Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy siltstone

• no paleoenvironmental data
• sandy siltstone

Primary reference: T. Kase. 1990. Late Cretaceous gastropods from the Izumi Group of southwest Japan. Journal of Paleontology 64(4):563-578 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4891: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• gastropods only
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda -
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Nekewis sp. Stewart 1927 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Amuletum (Amuletum) sp. Stephenson 1941 turrid
A. (Amuletum)