Wajiki locality (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Shikoku, Japan (33.9° N, 134.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 129.5° E)

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

• lagoonal involutinid wackestone that comes from the Wajiki area and has been retrieved from a limestone breccia with siliceous mudstone matrix (Peybernes et al. 2016b). Limestone clasts and blocks from these two localities range from the Ladinian?-Carnian to the Rhaetian (Peybernes et al. 2016b)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: I. I. Bucur, S. Rigaud, N. Del Piero, A. Fucelli, E. Heerwagen, C. Peybernes, G. Peyrotty, C. Verard, J. Chablais and R. Martini. 2020. Upper Triassic calcareous algae from the Panthalassa Ocean. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(2):499-540 [W. Kiessling/T. Jujihara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234320: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Toshiro Jujihara on 28.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Griphoporella curvata
Griphoporella curvata Guembel 1915