Ofunato Mine, Nagaiwa Area, Sakamotozawa City, Iwate Prefecture: Artinskian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 141.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.8° North, 140.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Artinskian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
Key time interval: Artinskian
Age range of interval: 290.1 - 283.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sakamotozawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of Sc Member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:109817
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-05-28 12:26:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-28 12:26:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

33548. H. Igo, Y. Kamikawa, and H. Igo. 2004. A new Permian rugose coral, Wentzellophyllum pacificum, from the Sakamotozawa Formation, southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 30:13-20 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]