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
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 | |
? Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
? 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 | |
Trocharea sp. Etallon 1864 stony coral | |
Dimorphoseris tabayamensis n. sp.
Dimorphoseris tabayamensis n. sp. Nishimiya and Yamagiwa 1973 stony coral | |
Calamophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Thamnasteria "sp. A" LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
Thamnasteria "sp. B" LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
Thamnasteria huzimotoi Eguchi 1951 stony coral | |
? Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral |