Tsuno locality, Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Shikoku: Carnian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Gosaukammerella eomesozoica (Flügel 1972)
Polychaeta - Terebellomorpha
Terebella sp.
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Hydrozoa - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
2 specimens
sp. 1
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966
7 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Tropiastraeidae
Thamnasteriamorpha okudai Stanley and Onoue 2015
2 specimens
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Milleporellidae
? Murania kazmierczaki Reitner 1992
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
Cryptocoelia zitteli Steinmann 1882
1 specimen
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae
Zardinia perisulcata Dieci et al. 1968
5 specimens
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Celyphia zoldana Ott et al. 1980
1 specimen
Uvanella ? lamellata Senowbari-Daryan 1981
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967
unclassified
Ladinella porata Ott 1968
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Plexoramea cerebriformis Mello 1977
? Isnella misiki Senowbari 2007
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
Baccanella floriformis Pantic 1971
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Dendronella articulata
? Parachaetetes cf. cassianus (Flugel 1961)
1 specimen
misspelling Parachaetetes cassiana
Involutinidae
Arenovidalina chialingchiangiensis Ho 1959
Lituolida - Lituolidae
? Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites/Reophax
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculariidae indet. Jones 1875
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Cucurbita infundibuliforme Jablonsky 1973
6 specimens
unclassified
Piallina tethydis Rettori and Zaninetti 1993
Piallina bronnimanni Martini 1995
Paleolituonella meridionalis
Wetheredellidae
? Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 133.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 117.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Carnian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3
Key time interval:Carnian
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Ladinian?‑Carnian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Lithology description: reef limestone blocks
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: The outcrop is situated in a small riverbed, which was dry in March 2012, 2
km north of the town of Tsuno (Tsuno district, Kochi prefecture). Reefal limestone blocks of tens of centimeters to few meters are embedded in green volcaniclastic and sparry calcite matrix. All of the collected blocks correspond to coral-sponge boundstone with minor amounts of microproblematica and algae. The preservation is good despite minor silicification. The taxonomic diversity is high (25 species were determined). The primary framebuilders (mainly corals and sponges) are encrusted by several generations of microbial crust and sessile organisms. There are a few voids with isopachous cements, and peloid-microproblematica grainstone-pack stone sediment and peloidal-clotted micrite fill the interstices between the skeletal elements
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173348
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-18 05:01:23 Last modified:2015-09-18 05:01:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-12-18 05:01:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56360. C. Peybernes, J. Chablais, and R. Martini. 2015. Upper Triassic (Ladinian?-Carnian) reef biota from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Shikoku, Japan. Facies 61(20) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]