Motobu-cho, Okinawa Island, Nakijin formation: Carnian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan County:Okinawa-ken
Coordinates: 26.7° North, 127.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Carnian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 3
Key time interval: Carnian
Age range of interval: 237 - 227.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nakijin
Stratigraphy comments: upper member of the Nakijin formation, upper Carnian (Late Triassic)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:133507
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-09-14 08:28:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-14 08:28:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

42990. M. Goto. 1994. Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic fish faunas of the Japanese Islands. The Island Arc 3(1994):247-254 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]