Katsuyama (UF) Section, Inuyama, UFI17 (Jurassic to of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.4° N, 137.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 147.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parahsuum simplum assemblage-zone zone, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified mudstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric

Primary reference: R. Hori. 1990. Lower Jurassic Radiolarian Zones of SW Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 159:562-586 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120189: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 08.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Trillus sp.2 Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Trillus elkhornensis Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Praeconocaryommidae
 Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Parasaturnalis diplocyclis1 Yao 1972 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
Parahsuum ovale Hori and Yao 1988 radiolarian
Parahsuum longiconicum1 Sashida 1988 radiolarian
Parahsuum aff. longiconicum in Hori, 1990
Parahsuum simplum Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Katroma angusta1, "Katroma kurusuensis" = Katroma clara
Katroma angusta1 Yeh 1987 radiolarian
"Katroma kurusuensis" = Katroma clara Yeh 1987 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Stichocapsa sp.2 Haeckel 1881 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Poulpidae
Saitoum sp.2 Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Napora spp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
Bipedis yaoi Gorican et al. 2006 radiolarian
originally mentioned as Bipedis sp. B; valid name from Gorican et al. 2006