Loc. 724, Kuma River, Kyushu, Japan (Triassic of Japan)

Also known as Reef 166

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Basic pyroclastic roccks associated with many bodies of limestone, thin bedded chert and intertongues of slate with some beds of sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Kanmera. 1964. Triassic coral faunas from the Konos Group in Kyushu. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 15(1):117-147 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34884: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 09.10.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only corals described in detail
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Codiaceae indet. Kützing 1843
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
? Stylophyllopsis sp. Frech 1890 stony coral
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily