Kaizawa Valley, upper bed, Iwai, Hinode-mura, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo-to (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.8° N, 139.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 115.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Iwai Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• 17 m above lower horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, lenticular marl

• Marl lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Kummel and S. Sakagami. 1960. Mid-Scythian Ammonites from Iwai Formation, Japan. Breviora 126:1-11 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99941: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite