Where: Japan (39.9° N, 141.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 48.2° N, 151.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hiraiga Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hiraiga Fm. AGE: Late Aptian; justification for age not reported in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the middle part of the lower cycle of the Hiraiga Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hanai
• COLLECTOR: T. Hanai. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: T. Kase. 1984. Early Cretaceous marine and brackish-water Gastropoda from Japan 1-262 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91285: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hypacanthoplites subcornueriana ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Semisolarium incrassatum snail | |
Ataphrus yokoyomai snail | |
Eriptycha minima snail | |
"Neritoma (Neridomus) cf. dolichostoma" = Neridomus
"Neritoma (Neridomus) cf. dolichostoma" = Neridomus snail | |
Otostoma japonicum snail | |
? Cimolithium miyakoense Nagao 1934 snail | |
Amauropsis importuna moon snail | |
"Torquesia yaegashii" = Turritella (Torquesia)
"Torquesia yaegashii" = Turritella (Torquesia) turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Goniomya subarchiaci clam | |
Nagaoella corrugata venus clam | |
Astarte (Trautscholdia) minor Lea 1833 clam | |
Anthonya subcantiana clam |