Funaochi-zawa Valley, Locality KA-1, Kurosawa Region: Roadian - Wordian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratoidea
Brachycycloceras sp. Miller et al. 1933
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.7° North, 138.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Roadian - Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3
Key time interval: Roadian - Wordian
Age range of interval: 274.4 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ochiai
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Judging from the lithofacies of the matrix, the geology around this locality, and the associated ammonoid fauna, it was probably derived from the middle - upper portion (Roadian-Wordian; Middle Permian) of the lower member of the Ochiai Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:116007
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-05 02:29:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-05 02:29:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

33634. S. Niko and M. Ehiro. 2002. Permian orthoconic cephalopods of the Ochiai Formation in the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 6:385-389 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]