Kitazawa (Lower), Toyoma-cho, Tome-gun, Miyagi Prefecture (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.7° N, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 117.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toyoma Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: M. Murata. 1969. Molluscan fauna of the Toyoma Formation (Late Permian). Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History Research Bulletin 38:1-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113878: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Mourlonia toyomensis n. sp." = Ptychomphalina toyomensis
"Mourlonia toyomensis n. sp." = Ptychomphalina toyomensis Murata 1969 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia sp. Waagen 1880 snail
Euphemitopsis kitakamiensis Murata 1969 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pseudopermophorus uedai Nakazawa and Newell 1968 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella toyomensis Nakazawa and Newell 1968 clam
 Nuculoida -
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam