Where: Japan (35.4° N, 136.6° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 107.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Akasaka Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• Lower Permian Parafusulina zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, black lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Teruo Ono
• Specimens housed at Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Japan
Primary reference: S.Z. Shen, J.I. Tazawa, and T. Ono. 2006. Scacchinella (Productida, Brachiopoda) from the Lower Permian of Akasaka, Mino Belt, central Japan, with a review of its world distribution. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 21:19-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Scacchinella gigantea Schellwien 1900 |