Nidano-sawa Valley, Locality KA-4, Kurosawa Region: Wordian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Orthoceratoidea
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.0° North, 137.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3
Key time interval: Wordian
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ochiai Member:Toyazawa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The exact stratigraphic horizon from which this block was derived is unknown, but it is highly likely that this block came from the middle part of the Toyazawa Member of the Ochiai Formation, based on its lithofacies and collected locality.
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:116011
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-05 02:35:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-05 02:35:26
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]