Katsuyama (UF) Section, Inuyama, UFI17: Hettangian - Pliensbachian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Poulpidae
Saitoum sp. Pessagno 1977
Hori 1992
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Stichocapsa sp. Haeckel 1881
Hori 1992
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
originally mentioned as Bipedis sp. B; valid name from Gorican et al. 2006
Napora spp. Pessagno 1977
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Hsuidae
Parahsuum ovale Hori and Yao 1988
Carter et al. 2010
Parahsuum aff. longiconicum in Hori, 1990
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Carter et al. 2010
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Trillus sp. Pessagno and Blome 1980
Hori 1992
Trillus elkhornensis Pessagno and Blome 1980
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Parasaturnalidae
Carter et al. 2010
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Praeconocaryommidae
Carter et al. 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 137.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.3° North, 166.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Hettangian - Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1 - Jurassic 2
Key time interval: Hettangian - Pliensbachian Zone:  Parahsuum simplum assemblage-zone
Age range of interval: 201.4 - 184.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Katsuyama (UF) Local bed:UF17
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red or brown lithified chert
Secondary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (siliceous) Tectonic setting:deep ocean basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original silica
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,hydroflouric
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:120189
Authorizer:J. Pálfy Enterer:A. Kocsis
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2011-11-08 16:53:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-08 16:53:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

38461. R. Hori. 1990. Lower Jurassic Radiolarian Zones of SW Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 159:562-586 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]

Secondary references:

38346 E. S. Carter, S. Goričan, J. Guex, L. O'Dogherty, P. De Wever, P. Dumitrica, R. S. Hori, A. Matsuoka, and P. A. Whalen. 2010. Global radiolarian zonation for the Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297:401-419 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis/M. Uhen]
38450 R. Hori. 1992. Radiolarian Biostratigraphy at the Triassic/Jurassic Period Boundary in Bedded Cherts from the Inuyama Area, Central Japan. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University 35(4):53-65 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]