Kamura, Takachiho-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture: Smithian, Japan
collected by Kambe

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria minima (Kiparisova 1938)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites canalensis (Catullo 1847)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites kamurensis n. sp. Kambe 1963
Koike 1996
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Koike 1996
Clypites japonicus n. sp. Kambe 1963
Koike 1996
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Koike 1996
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
Koike 1996
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Cyclostomi - Conodontophorida - Gondolellidae
Neospathodus sp. Mosher 1968
Koike 1996
Koike 1996
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° North, 128.6° 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: Smithian
Age range of interval: 250.8 - 248.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kamura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Owenitian" age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Kambe
Metadata
Database number:115247
Authorizer:M. Clapham, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Clapham, B. Allen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-31 11:45:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-31 11:45:31
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
33626. K. Nakazawa. 1971. The Lower Triassic Kurotaki Fauna in Shikoku and its allied faunas in Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 38:103-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

73617 T. Koike. 1996. The first occurrence of Griesbachian conodonts in Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan. New Series 181:337-346 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]