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
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 | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Pectinucula) tosaensis" = Pectinucula
"Nucula (Pectinucula) tosaensis" = Pectinucula nut clam | |
Nanonavis yokoyamai clam | |
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam |