Where: Japan (42.2° N, 142.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.3° N, 177.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tsukenai Formation (Yezo Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• Detailed biostratigraphic position unknown, but correlation indicates a late early to early late Aptian age for these taxa.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Futakami, Y. Kawashita in 1994
• Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Primary reference: M. Futakami. 2018. Aptian ammonite fauna from the Yezo Group of the Urakawa area in Hokkaido, Japan. Cretaceous Research 89:224-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180422: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cheloniceras sp. Hyatt 1903 ammonite | |
Rhytidoplites adkinsi Humphrey 1949 ammonite
Colombiceras spathi Humphrey 1949 ammonite | |
Eogaudryceras sp. Spath 1927 ammonite | |
Melchiorites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Pseudohaploceras cf. nipponicum Shimizu 1931 ammonite | |
"Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras)
"Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) Salfeld 1924 ammonite |