Tatezaki, Utatsu-cho, Motoyoshi-gun, Miyagi Prefecture: Spathian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
7 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
    = Lingularia sp. Biernat and Emig 1993
Clapham 2015
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
Ishizaki and Shiino 2024
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
Ishizaki and Shiino 2024
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.8° North, 138.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
Stage: Olenekian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Spathian Ammonoid zone:  Columbites parisianus
Age range of interval: 248.6 - 247 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Osawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle part of Osawa Fm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
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
Metadata
Database number:113889
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-06 15:27:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-06 15:27:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

33620. M. Murata. 1973. Triassic fossils from the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan, Part 1, Pelecypods and Brachiopods of the Osawa and the Fukkoshi Formations. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:267-275 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

27487 M. E. Clapham. 2015. Personal Opinions. [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
89607 Y. Ishizaki and Y. Shiino. 2024. A new genus of Triassic discinid brachiopod and re-evaluating the taxonomy of the group - evolutionary insights into autecological innovation of post-Palaeozoic discinids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69:529-548 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]