Nakadaira, Yahagi town, Rikuzen-Takata City, Iwate Prefecture (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (39.0° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 108.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nakadaira Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Ehiro. 1995. Cephalopod fauna of the Nakadaira Formation (Lower Permian) in the southern Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 179:184-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107622: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Pleuronautilus sp. von Mojsisovics 1882
Pleuronautilus yahagiensis n. sp. Ehiro 1995
Tainoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
? Foordiceras sp. Hyatt 1893
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
Parastenopoceras sp. Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954
Stearoceras sp. Hyatt 1893
 Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras sp. Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite