Ko.286, Kuma River (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.3° N, 130.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 125.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Koguchi Formation (Konose Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Other samples are most likely Carnian, but Galeanella minima is most probably Norian and not Carnian in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Displaced blocks in a debris avalanche deposit

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. D. Stanley, and T. Onoue. 2012. Upper Triassic (Carnian) reef biota from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan. Facies 58:671-684 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133731: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Permocorynella "sp. 2" Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge