Where: Nagasaki, Japan (32.8° N, 129.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 124.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Iojima Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Iojima beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part II. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12(1):11-140 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205247: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea nipponica n. sp.
Cucullaea nipponica n. sp. Nagao 1928 clam | |
Ostrea cassis Nagao 1928 oyster | |
Cardium (Cerastoderma) hizenense n. sp. Nagao 1928 cockle |