SLR-26, Saraito logging road section, Takachiho (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.8° N, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 106.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mitai Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Mostly recrystallized and dolomitized. Some of the limestones are strongly deformed but highly fossiliferous. Their lighter color is due to recrystallization and dolomitization.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Repository: Earth Science Division, Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan (Fumio Kobayashi Collection).

Primary reference: F. Kobayashi. 2012. Middle and Late Permian foraminifers from the Chichibu belt, Takachiho area, Kyushu, Japan: implications for faunal events. Journal of Paleontology 86(4):669-687 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130720: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina spp.
Globivalvulina spp. Schubert 1921
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Staffella sp.
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? Neodiscus sp.