Earth:Tenneru Formation

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Short description: Geological formation in Hokkaidō, Japan

The Tenneru Formation (天寧層, Tenneru-sō), sometimes in older literature the Tenneru Conglomerate Member of the Chorobetsu Formation,[1]:260 is a geological formation in southeast Hokkaidō, Japan, in the area of Kushiro.[2]:152 Deposited between the Harutori Formation and Yūbetsu Formation in the Urahoro Group that unconformably overlies the Nemuro Group in the Nemuro Belt, the Tenneru Formation correlates with the Rushin Formation at its western end.[3] The Formation, laid down in the Late Eocene,[2]:160 consists mainly of reddish and reddish brown conglomerate, with some sandstone and mudstone; there are several intercalated coal seams.[2]:152[4] New species of fauna described from the Tenneru Formation include the "Kushiro tapir" [ja] (Plesiocolopirus kushiroensis; protonym: Colodon kushiroensis),[2] and of flora, Actinidia harutoriensis, Alnus ezoensis, Aralia ezoana, Cordia japonica, Cupania japonica, Idesia kushiroensis, Lastrea kushiroensis, and Maesa nipponica.[5]:432–4

Flora

The Tenneru Flora as described by Tanai Toshimasa in 1970 from the areas where the Tenneru Formation is exposed, with a thickness of some 300 m (980 ft), along the upper stretches of the Tokomuro River (常室川) in the western Kushiro coal field (ja), comprises sixteen families and twenty genera, including two Pteridophytes, one Equisetum, and two conifers, the remaining species being dicotyledons:[5]:432–4

See also

  • Kushiro Coal Mine
  • Kushiro City Museum

References

  1. Honda Yutaka (1980). "A new Chlamys from the Shitakara Formation of the Urahoro Group, Kushiro Coal Field, Eastern Hokkaido". Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series (117): 255–263. http://www.palaeo-soc-japan.jp/download/TPPSJ/TPPSJ_NS117.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tomida Yukimitsu (1983). "A New Helaletid Tapiroid (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of Hokkaido, Japan, and the Age of the Urahoro Group". Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series C (National Science Museum) 9 (4): 151–163. ISSN 0385-244X. https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/09_4/BNSM_C090404.pdf. 
  3. Katagiri Takahiro et al. (2020). "Collisional bending of the western Paleo‐Kuril Arc deduced from paleomagnetic analysis and U–Pb age determination". Island Arc (Wiley-Blackwell) 29 (1). doi:10.1111/iar.12329. e12329. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338022714. 
  4. Okazaki Yoshio et al. (1965). Hokkaido Development Agency [ja]. https://www.gsj.jp/data/50KGM/PDF/GSJ_MAP_G050_02036_1965_D.pdf. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Tanai Toshimasa 棚井敏雅 (1970). "The Oligocene Floras from the Kushiro Coal Field, Hokkaido, Japan". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 14 (4): 383–514.