Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum No. 48
Hemifusus crassicauda (Philippi, 1849) from the middle Pleistocene Ogushi Formation in Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- BMFM48-009Ando-B（PDF 4.79MB）
Ando (2021b) print-version
Published: 2021/10/29 Page: 99–101
A large gastropod shell, Hemifusus crassicauda (Philippi) (Caenogastropoda, Melongenidae), has been collected from the middle Pleistocene Ogushi Formation (marine oxygen isotope stage 7: 250 to 230 ka) in Itsuwa-machi, Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwest Japan. Crassostrea gigas attached to be inner aperture of the present specimen and Spirorbidae gen. et sp. indet. also attaced its shell surface of apertural side.