Kurusu (KU) Section, Inuyama, KU (c) 2 (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.4° N, 137.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 132.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Canoptum triassicum assemblage-zone zone, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, red chert and lithified mudstone

• This section is composed of a rhythmically interbedded sequence of chert and mudstone. The thickness of individual chert layer varies from 1 to 7 cm (mostly 4-4,5 cm), and the mudstone layer is very thin (mostly 1-3mm).

•The chert exhibits a wide range of color, varying from mostly gray and green to partly red. In these chert layers, some sedimentary structures such as convolute lamination are observed.

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: R. Hori. 1988. Some characteristic radiolarians from Lower Jurassic bedded cherts of the Inuyama area, Southwest Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 151:543-563 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120055: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 06.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Neosciadiocapsidae
? Squinabolella "sp. C"
? Squinabolella "sp. C" Pessagno 1969 radiolarian
sensu Yao, 1982
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
? Parahsuum sp.
? Parahsuum sp. Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
"Palaeosaturnalis aff. tenuispinosus" = Praehexasaturnalis tenuispinosus
"Palaeosaturnalis aff. tenuispinosus" = Praehexasaturnalis tenuispinosus Donofrio and Mostler 1978 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Pantanellium aff. kluense
Pantanellium aff. kluense Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian