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Southern coast of Oki-no-shima off Nagasaki, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 32.69,129.775 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Southern coast of Oki-no-shima off Nagasaki | Shimizu S. (1926) | Okinoshima | Lower to middle part of the Okinoshima Formation. According to foraminiferal and molluscan biostratigraphy, the formation is assigned in age to the Auverisian to the Bartonian (Upper Eocene). The Okinoshima Formation falls within calcareous nannofossil Subzones CP14a–CP15b of Okada and Bukry (1980) and planktic foraminiferal Zones E10–E13 of Berggren and Pearson (2005), dating to the middle Eocene. The Okinoshima Formation including calcareous nannofossils such as Reticulofenestra umbilica and D | sandstone | 41.3 - 38 Ma Eocene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Eutrephoceras japonicus species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Nautilidae : Eutrephoceras : Eutrephoceras japonicus | 41.3 - 38 Ma Eocene |
References
Shimizu S. (1926) On two species of Nautiloidea from the Tertiary of Japan, Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, 2nd Series, Geology 9, 25-27 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!