Loc. 1, Sendai nuclear power station, Guzimaki area (Cretaceous to of Japan)

Where: Kagoshima, Japan (31.8° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 132.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sendai Formation, Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

• "Sendai Formation"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray mudstone and sandy mudstone

• thick dark gray mudstone and sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Komatsu, M. Watanabe, and N. Ishida. 2009. Lower Creatceous bivalves form Gumizaki area, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 8:11-29 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142514: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula (Pectinucula) tosaensis" = Pectinucula
"Nucula (Pectinucula) tosaensis" = Pectinucula nut clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam