Kusaka, Sakawa Basin, Shikoku Island (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.5° N, 133.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 118.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oxytoma-Mytilus zone, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Sakagami. 1972. The Triassic Bryozoa from Kusaka, Sakawa Basin, Shikoku, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, NS 85:275-279 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32573: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 09.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Also present: large number of pelecypods, one brachipods, and ammonites
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
"Pseudobatostomella kobayashii n. sp." = Arcticopora kobayashii
"Pseudobatostomella kobayashii n. sp." = Arcticopora kobayashii Sakagami 1972