Nidano-sawa, upper stream, tributary of Shigeji-sawa (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (39.0° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 112.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kanokura Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Co-occurs with Monodiexodina matsubaishi

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, brown, green sandstone

• Greenish brown fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Tazawa. 1974. Two species of Permundaria from the Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 94:313-318 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina cristata von Schlotheim 1816
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma margaritovi Tschernyschew 1902
Strophomenata
 Productida -
 Productida - Schrenkiellidae
Permundaria asiatica Nakamura et al. 1970
Permundaria tenuistriata n. sp. Tazawa 1974