B-zawa Valley, T1, Takakura-yama Mountain, Iwaki City: Wordian, Japan
collected by J. Tazawa, N. Kaneko, S. Hasegawa 1986-2005

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Alispiriferella sp. Waterhouse and Waddington 1982
Tazawa et al. 2015
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Gypospirifer kobiyamai Tazawa and Araki 2013
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Neospirifer sp. Fredericks 1919
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Pterospirifer alatus (von Schlotheim 1813)
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia ratburiensis Waterhouse and Piyasin 1970
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella krotovi (Fredericks 1925)
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Chonetinella transversa Tazawa 2008
Dyoros (Dyoros) sp. Stehli 1954
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Transennatia gratiosa (Waagen 1884)
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Lamnimargus peregrinus (Fredericks 1924)
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Rugoconcha sp. Jin and Sun 1981
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Yakovlevia mammatiformis (Fredericks 1926)
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Haydenella sp. (Reed 1944)
(2 measurements)
    = Haydenella wenganensis Huang 1932
Tazawa et al. 2015
Costatumulus tazawai Shen et al. 2000
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Megousia auriculata Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Tazawa et al. 2015
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 140.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.2° North, 113.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Wordian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wordian
Age range of interval:266.90000 - 264.28000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Takakurayama Member:Iriishikura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 30 m below top of Iriishikura Member. Wuchiapingian according to Tazawa et al. (2015), but occurs below members with Guadalupian ammonoids.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified sandy "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy shale
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: probably derived from shallow marine continental shelf to a deep-sea basin by sediment-gravity flows
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Tazawa, N. Kaneko, S. Hasegawa Collection dates:1986-2005
Collection method comments: Repository: Fukushima Museum, Japan (FM-N), Tohoku University Museum in Sendai (IGPS), Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University (NU-B)
Metadata
Database number:118972
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-10-19 14:50:51 Last modified:2023-03-17 00:05:35
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-19 14:50:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38216. J. I. Tazawa. 2008. Brachiopods from the Upper Permian Takakurayama Formation, Abukuma Mountains, northeast Japan. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 23:13-53 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

54150 J. I. Tazawa, N. Kaneko, C. Suzuki and S. Hasegawa. 2015. Late Permian (Wuchiapingian) brachiopod fauna from the lower Takakurayama Formation, Abukuma Mountains, northeastern Japan. Paleontological Research 19:33-51 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]