Aoiwadani-Kosodegawa (Jurassic to of Japan)

Where: Yamanashi, Japan (35.8° N, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 142.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kosode Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• limestone lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Nishimiya and N. Yamagiwa. 1973. Coral fossils from the Kosode Formation, Yamanashi Prefecture. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 89:15-23 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85626: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
? Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
Calamophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Synastraeidae
Dimorphoseris tabayamensis n. sp. Nishimiya and Yamagiwa 1973 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
? Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Trocharea sp. Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylina kantoensis n. sp. Nishimiya and Yamagiwa 1973 stony coral
Enallhelia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria "sp. A" LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
Thamnasteria "sp. B" LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
Thamnasteria huzimotoi Eguchi 1951 stony coral