Kitsunezaki-sawa River, Locality 2, Nabekoshi Mountain, Kesennuma City (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.9° N, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 118.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toyoma Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, white sandstone

• Limestone lens in largely siliciclastic succession
• Whitish-brown granule sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Tazawa. 1975. Uppermost Permian fossils from the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 81:629-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118963: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
"Eolyttonia cf. nakazawai" = Eolyttonia tenuis
"Eolyttonia cf. nakazawai" = Eolyttonia tenuis Waagen 1883
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Edriosteges sp.
Edriosteges sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Megousia nakamurai
Megousia nakamurai Tazawa 1975
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Paramarginifera japonica n. sp." = Lamnimargus japonicus
"Paramarginifera japonica n. sp." = Lamnimargus japonicus Tazawa 1975