Also known as Samples 30, 312,313, and 315
Where: Japan (36.3° N, 139.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 138.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hijikara Formation (Kakegawa Group), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Overlies the Horinouchi Formation, interbedded with the T-3 tuff layer, thickly bedded.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, silty mudstone and tuff
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk,
• There were 200-1500 individual forams present in each sample. The number of mollusc individuals per sample is not reported. Forams were extracted from blocks of sediment weighing 1-2kg each.
Primary reference: K. Chinzei and M. Aoshima. 1976. Marine Thermal Structure of the Plio-Pleistocene Warm Water in Central Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 19(3):179-203 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 45528: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 29.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Gyroidina orbicularis d'Orbigny 1865 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Globigerinoides ruber d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Globorotalia sp. Cushman 1927 | |
Nodosariata | |
Bivalvia | |
Neilonella coix clam | |
"Yoldia similis" = Yoldia (Yoldia) similis
"Yoldia similis" = Yoldia (Yoldia) similis Kuroda and Habe 1952 clam | |