Gokase-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, Gionyama Fm, Locality KL1 (Silurian to of Japan)

Where: Gokase, Japan (32.6° N, 131.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 131.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Gionyama Formation), Telychian to Telychian (438.5 - 425.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified, massive, conglomeratic limestone and lithified shale

• Limestone conglomerate intercalated with thin lenticular beds of tuffaceous shale and sandstone. The limestone conglomerate yields abundant corals with various other fossils, such as stromatoporoids, crinoids, bryozoans, and gastropods. Kido and Sugiyama (2007a) suggested that the limestone conglomerate of the Middle Member might have derived from shallow-water reehrl limestone, and was transported and deposited as the result of a debris flow or storm

•action on a reef slope or along a reef front.

• limestone conglomerate beds

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Author has several papers from this area and locality, but each one describes a single component of the fauna.

Primary reference: E. Kido. 2009. Silurian Holmophyllidae (Rugosa) from the Gionyama Formation of the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan. Paleontological Research 13(3):293-306 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140694: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Strombodes sp.2 Schweigger 1819 horn coral
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
Shensiphyllum sp.2 Ge and Yü 1974 horn coral
Nanshanophyllum gokasense2 Kido 2009 horn coral
 Stauriida - Amsdenoididae
Amsdenoides sp.1 Sutherland 1965 horn coral
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Pseudamplexus sp.1 Weissermel 1897 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptychophyllidae
Ptychophyllum sp.2 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp.2 Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
Holmophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma "sp. B"2 Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
Tryplasma "sp. A"2 Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Rhizophyllum "sp. A"2 Lindström 1866 horn coral
Rhizophyllum "sp. B"2 Lindström 1866 horn coral