Omote-Matsukawa quarry, Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture: Capitanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
(6 measurements)
Artiopoda - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Kobayashi and Hamada 1984
Kobayashi and Hamada 1984
Kobayashi and Hamada 1984
(2 measurements)
Kobayashi and Hamada 1984
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.9° North, 135.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Capitanian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Capitanian Foram zone:  Lepidolina - Yabeina
Age range of interval: 264.28 - 259.857 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Iwaizaki
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Flick & Shiino give this as the upper part of the Kanokura Formation (Upper Capitanian).
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:114488
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-15 12:32:57 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-15 12:32:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

27565. T. Kobayashi and T. Hamada. 1982. Advance reports on the Permian trilobites of Japan. II: Cordaniinae, nov. and Cheiropyge (Suturikephalion), nov. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 58(3):49-51 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

27543 R. M. Owens. 2003. The stratigraphical distribution and extinctions of Permian trilobites. Special Papers in Palaeontology 70:377-397 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]