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List of fossils in Kochi prefecture

A list of fossils reported from Kochi prefecture, Shikoku region, Shikoku island, Japan.

Photographs of outcrops and fossils in Kochi prefecture

Silurian (443.4-419.2 Ma)
Trilobites
Prantlia biloba => Latiproetus biloba
Conodonts
Gastropods
Semitubina sakoi
Brachiopods
Crinoids
Graptolites
Corals
Acanthohalysites kuraokaensis => Halysites kuraokensis
Falsicatenipora shikokuensis
Favosites sp.
Favosites cf. asper
Schedohalysites kitakamiensis
Devonian (419.2-358.9 Ma)
Lycopods
Leptophloeum rhombicum
Permian (298.9-252.17 Ma)
Corals
Durhamina hasimotoi (Nagao and Minato)
Triassic (252.17-201.3 Ma)
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Bivalvia
Daonella sp.
Daonella kotoi Mojsisovics
Oxytoma majsisovicsi Teller
Oxytoma zitteli (Teller)
Tosapecten suzukii suzukii (Kobayashi)
Cretaceous (145.0-66.0 Ma)
Plants
Brachyphyllum japonicum (Yokoyama)
Cladophlebis exiliformis (Geyler)
Cycadeoidea buchiana (Ettingshausen)
Onychiopsis elongata (Geyler)
Ptilophyllum pecten
Zamites buchianus
Miocene (23.03-5.33 Ma)
Fishes
Pliocene (5.33-2.58 Ma)
Bivalvia
Amussiopecten praesignis (Yokoyama)
Foegia yokoyamai (Shikama)
Pliocene - Pleistocene
Fishes, (Otoliths)
Bivalves
Amussiopecten praesignis
Anadara ferruginea
Clementia sp.
Glycymeris rotunda
Nipponoclava sp.
superfamily Ostreoidea
Paphia schnelliana
Siphonalia sp.
Gastropods
Xenophora exutus
Annelids
class Polychaeta, Ragworm
Solitary corals
Pleistocene (2.58- 0.01Ma)
Sharks (Teeth)
Bivalves
Anadara sp.
Callista sp.
Dosinia sp.
Fulvia sp.
Glycymeris sp.
Nipponoclava sp.
Panopea sp.
Pecten sp.
Scapharca sp. => Anadara sp.
Vasticardium sp.
Scaphopods
Gastropods
Glossaulax sp.
Onustus exutus
Siphonalia sp.