Abstract
This study re-examines the depositional age, lithostratigraphy, and distribution of Mesozoic sedimentary formations in the section of the Kurosegawa Belt that outcrops in the Toba area, eastern Shima Peninsula, Mie Prefecture, Japan. In this area, Mesozoic successions are divided into the Jurassic Shiranezaki Formation and the Cretaceous Matsuo Group. We collected Bajocian and Callovian–Oxfordian age radiolarians from the Shiranezaki Formation and Valanginian–Barremian age radiolarians from the Matsuo Group. The lithology and age constraints provided by these collected radiolarians suggest that part of the previously defined Matsuo Group actually forms part of the Shiranezaki Formation, with this formation being stratigraphically overlain by the Matsuo Group across a disconformity.
