KY2, Yamasuge, Kuzu area: Kungurian, Japan
collected by Y. Okumura, M. Shimizu

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Schwagerinidae
Parafusulina yabei Hanzawa 1942
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.4° North, 139.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.3° North, 135.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Kungurian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
Key time interval: Kungurian Foram zone:  Parafusulina yabei
Age range of interval: 283.3 - 274.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nabeyama
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Nabeyama Formation (about 10 m above the top of the Izuru Formation), with Parafusulina yabei Hanzawa, 1942
"the age of the Yamasuge fauna is Artinskian to Kungurian, most probably Kungurian" (Tazawa et al. 2012)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Y. Okumura, M. Shimizu
Collection method comments: Repository: Kuzu Fossil Museum in Kuzu, Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture.
Metadata
Database number:149804
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-08-26 09:41:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-26 09:41:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47983. J. I. Tazawa, Y. Okumura, and M. Shimizu. 2012. Permian brachiopods from Yamasuge in the Kuzu area, Ashio Mountains, central Japan, part 2. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 27:51-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]