PBDB Collection

Maeda, Locality B, Ofunato City, Miyagi Prefecture: Changhsingian, Japan
collected by M. Ehiro, Y. Miyake

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Choristitidae

	Choristitella wynnei (Waagen 1883)	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae

	Attenuatella sp. Stehli 1954	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae

	Enteletes andrewsi Grabau 1931	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae

	Orthotichia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae

	Hustedia minuta n. sp. Tazawa 2011	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae

	Callispirina sp. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Productida - Richthofeniidae

	Richthofenia sp.	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae

	Petasmaia ehiroi n. sp. Tazawa 2011	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae

	Lamnimargus peregrinus (Fredericks 1924)	Tazawa 2008
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae

	Compressoproductus cf. mytiloides (Waagen 1884)	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Productida - Rugosochonetidae

	Tethyochonetes sp. Chen et al. 2000	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae

	Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae

	Geyerella sp. Schellwien 1900	Tazawa and Miyake 2011

	Geyerella ofunatoensis n. sp. Tazawa 2011	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae

	Tropidelasma sp. Cooper and Grant 1969	Tazawa and Miyake 2011
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Heteropectinidae

	? Etheripecten sp. Waterhouse 1963	Nakazawa 1998

	Girtypecten cf. beipeiensis Liu 1976	Nakazawa 1998
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Dzhulfitidae

	Paratirolites sp. Stoyanow 1910
see common names

Geography

Country:	Japan
Coordinates:	39.1° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	2.8° North, 136.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Permian	Epoch:	Lopingian
Stage:	Changhsingian	10 m.y. bin:	Permian 4
Key time interval:	Changhsingian
Age range of interval:	254.14 - 251.902 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:

bed

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "shale"
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	mold/impression
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	M. Ehiro, Y. Miyake

Metadata

Database number:	107624
Authorizer:	M. Clapham	Enterer:	M. Clapham
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2011-04-11 10:54:16	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-04-11 10:54:16
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

17904.

M. Ehiro. 1996. Latest Permian ammonoid Paratirolites from the Ofunato district, Southern Kitakami Massif, Northeast Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, New Series 184:592-596 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

33627		K. Nakazawa. 1998. Uppermost Permian bivalve fossils from the southern Kitakami Mountains. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 52:51-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
33726		J. I. Tazawa. 2008. Permian brachiopods from the Mizukoshi Formation, central Kyushu, SW Japan: systematics, palaeogeography and tectonic implications. Paleontological Research 12:37-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
44307		J. I. Tazawa and Y. Miyake. 2011. Late Permian (Changhsingian) brachiopod fauna from Maeda, Ofunato area, South Kitakami belt, NE Japan. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 26:1-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]