Ogurui (Miocene to of Japan)

Where: Fukui , Japan (35.5° N, 135.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 132.7° E)

When: N8 foram zone, Kohnoura Member (Shimo Formation), Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Overlies Shiokumitohge Conglomerate and Sandstone Member and Najima Volcanic Rocks Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained, muddy sandstone and sandy mudstone

• Muddy fine-grained sandstone and sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Nakagawa. 2009. Miocene tropical sandy and rocky bottom molluscan assemblages of the Shimo Formation, Uchiura Group, Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35:127-151 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176560: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia cubaensis Lea 1841 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Tectus (Rochia) japonicus Horikoshi 1958 top snail
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Terebralia kannoi horn snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Cernina nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai
"Cernina nakamurai" = Cernina fluctuata nakamurai Otuka 1938 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra hirosei, "Strigatella notoensis" = Mitra (Strigatella)
Mitra hirosei mitre shell
"Strigatella notoensis" = Mitra (Strigatella) mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Babylonia kozaiensis Nomura 1939 true whelk
Babylonia kozaiensis kokozurana
Siphonalia sp. Adams 1863 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Reticunassa sp. Iredale 1936 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus (Chelyconus) tokunagai" = Conus (Chelyoconus), "Conus (Chelyconus) sp." = Conus (Chelyoconus), Conus (Asprella) toyamaensis
"Conus (Chelyconus) tokunagai" = Conus (Chelyoconus) cone shell
"Conus (Chelyconus) sp." = Conus (Chelyoconus) Mörch 1852 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Magilus sp. Monfort 1810 murex snail
"Mancinella minoensis" = Thais (Mancinella) murex snail
Mancinella minoensis Itoigawa
Murex (Murex) sp. Linnaeus 1758 murex snail
Rhizophorimurex capucinus murex snail
Rhizophorimurex capucinus nagiensis
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Sydaphera sp. Iredale 1929 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea ohiroi Masuda 1967 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira meisensis Makiyama 1926 moon snail
Glossaulax didyma Röding 1798 moon snail
Glossaulax didyma coticazae
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Scapharca sp. Gray 1847 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp., "Chlamys cf. arakawai" = Chlamys (Chlamys) arakawai
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
"Chlamys cf. arakawai" = Chlamys (Chlamys) arakawai Nomura 1935 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
"Teredo" sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Zirfaea sp. Gray 1842 clam
 Cardiida -
? Nipponomarcia sp. Ikebe 1941 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Phacosoma akaisiana" = Dosinia (Phacosoma)
"Phacosoma akaisiana" = Dosinia (Phacosoma) venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiliidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen (Solen) sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell