Mizuyagadani Valley, Volcanic Sandstone, Fukuji District, Gifu Prefecture: Sakmarian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Orthoceratoidea
Pseudorthoceratidae indet. Flower and Caster 1935
Anthozoa - Favositida - Schizophoritidae
Niko 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 137.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.6° North, 139.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 1
Key time interval: Sakmarian
Age range of interval: 293.52 - 290.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mizuyagadani
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of formation, about 20 m above its base
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous,green,red lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology:tuffaceous,green,red lithified mudstone
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:116012
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-05 02:40:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-05 02:40:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
33635. S. Niko and T. Nishida. 1987. Early Permian cephalopods from the Mizuyagadani Formation, Fukuji District, central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 146:35-41 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

17572 S. Niko. 2001. Sakmarian (Early Permian) Tabulate Corals from the Mizuyagadani Formation, Gifu Prefecture. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C 27(1, 2):25-32 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]