ammonites
Locality 15 East (Felaniella-Ostrea assemblage) - Shimonoseki City (Ashiya Gp) (Oligocene of Japan)

Also known as FO East, Locality 15

Where: Yamaguchi, Japan (34.0° N, 130.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 127.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashiya Group, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• No stratigraphic data available as manuscript is in Japanese.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; medium-grained sandstone

• Sedimentary facies and molluscan assemblages suggest an environment in the upper euneritic zone of a temperate to subtropical sea. From Felaniella-Ostrea assemblage
• SPECIFIC: medium sandstone. GENERAL: The Ashiya Group is characterised by a sandstone-dominant shallw marine sequence (about 150 m thick), in which sedimentary facies include cross-stratified sandstone, parallel stratified sandstone, bioturbated sandstone, and sandstone/siltstone couplet facies.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• No collection data available as manuscript is in Japanese. Material is reposited in the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, and in Shimonoseki City Archaeological Museum, Shimonoseki.

Primary reference: K. Okamoto and T. Sakai. 1995. Sedimentary facies and fossil molluscs of the Oligocene Ashiya Group in the Hikoshima Takenokojim and Nishiyama area, Shimonoseki City, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22:19-50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51458: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.06.2005

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