Mount Sambosan, locality 4 (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.6° N, 133.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 117.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Reef (fore-reef slope margin or patch reef)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Montana Paleontology Center (UMIP)

Primary reference: G. D. Stanley and T. Onoue. 2015. Upper Triassic reef corals from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan. Facies 61(1):1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165296: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2015, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
"? Parachaetetes cf. cassianus" = Parachaetetes cassiana
"? Parachaetetes cf. cassianus" = Parachaetetes cassiana Flugel 1961
or Solenopora sp.
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
? Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites/Reophax sp.
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Foraminifera
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Verticillitidae
"Stylothalamia dehmi" = Stylothalamia columnaris
"Stylothalamia dehmi" = Stylothalamia columnaris Le Maitre 1935 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae
Zardinia perisulcata Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967 demosponge
Celyphia ? minima Senowbari-Daryan et al. 1993 demosponge
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Isnella misiki
  -
? Isnella misiki Senowbari 2007
Plexoramea
  -
Plexoramea cerebriformis
  -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Seriastraea furukawai Kanmera 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Craspedophyllia ramosa Roniewicz et al. 2005 stony coral
Retiophyllia tosaensis n. sp. Stanley and Onoue 2015 stony coral
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
 Terebellomorpha -
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae