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Yoshida Shell Bed

• Type locality: Yoshida, Nakagawa city, Nasu county, Tochigi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Miocene

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Pumice tuff, Tuffaceous calcareous sandstone

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Yoshida, Nakagawa city, Nasu county, Tochigi pref.
• Fossils: Whales (Lower jaw, Vertebra), Echinoids, Brachiopods, Barnacles
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Miyagipecten matsumoriensis, Patinopecten paraplebejus, Chlamys miyatokoensis, Chlamys otsukae, Lucinoma annulata, Lima sp., Clinocardium sp., Callista sp.Neptunea koromogawana, Lucinoma acutilineata

• Matsui et al. (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, Supplement, pp.89-102 DOI