Okawachi (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.3° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 125.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• muddy limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: M. Tamura and E. Nishimura. 1994. Description of Upper Triassic Kyushutrigonia hachibarensis, new genus and new species with revision of trigonian species from Sambosan Terrane, Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Education Kumamoto University, Natural science 43:15-23 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98643: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Gruenewaldia decussata Munster 1838 clam
Gruenewaldia woehrmanni Bittner 1895 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Kyushutrigonia hachibarensis Tamura and Nishimura 1994 clam
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita sp. Conrad 1867 clam