Where: Japan (36.9° N, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 105.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kuruma Group, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• Devonian pebbles within a Lower Jurassic conglomerate.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, conglomeratic conglomerate
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: S. Niko, Y. Ibaraki, and J. Tazawa. 2014. Devonian tabulate corals from pebbles in Mesozoic conglomerate, Kotaki, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Part 1: Favositina. Science Reports of Niigata University (Geology) (29)53-66 [W. Kiessling/S. Triple]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158155: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Super Triple on 16.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Plicatomurus sp. Chang 1959 tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Hillaepora sp. Mironova 1960 tabulate coral
Thamnopora itoae tabulate coral
Thamnopora nicholsoni tabulate coral
Thamnoptychia mana tabulate coral |