Where: Japan (36.4° N, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 108.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Parafusulina yabei foram zone, Nabeyama Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Lower Nabeyama Formation, with Parafusulina yabei Hanzawa, 1942
•"the age of the Yamasuge fauna is Artinskian to Kungurian, most probably Kungurian" (Tazawa et al. 2012)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Y. Okumura, M. Shimizu
• Repository: Kuzu Fossil Museum in Kuzu, Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture.
Primary reference: J. I. Tazawa, Y. Okumura, and M. Shimizu. 2012. Permian brachiopods from Yamasuge in the Kuzu area, Ashio Mountains, central Japan, part 2. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 27:51-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149806: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Transennatia sp. Waterhouse 1975 | |
Echinauris lateralis Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Bothrostegium sp. Cooper and Grant 1974
Goniarina permiana Stehli 1954 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cartorhium coristum Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Cleiothyridina hayasakai Tazawa 2010 | |
Hustedia culcitula Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Arionthia polypleura Girty 1908 | |
Metriolepis kuzuensis n. sp.
Metriolepis kuzuensis n. sp. Tazawa 2012 | |
Acosarina rectimarginata Cooper and Grant 1976
Orthotichia japonica Hayasaka 1932 | |
Enteletes acutiplicatus Hayasaka 1932 | |
Rhipidomella hessensis King 1931 |