Kanagasako, Tsubuta, Sanyoonoda-shi: Julian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
28 specimens
and hundreds of dissociated ossiles
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 131.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.1° North, 134.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Carnian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 3
Key time interval: Julian
Age range of interval: 237 - 233.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nakatsuka
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Ammonoids including Trachyceras cf. desatoyense (Johnston) (Ishibashi et al. 1990), Protrachyceras cf. archelaus (Laube) and Paratrachyceras cf. aonoides (von Mojsisovics) (Ishibashi et al. 2007), all document an early Carnian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: The grain size spectrum of the shale layers varies from pure clay to silty clay with numerous detrital mica flakes
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: Interpreted as a shallow, nearshore marine deposit (Tokuyama 1962). It overlies
the limnic to deltaic deposits of the Kajiura Formation.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NHMW
Collection method comments: Repository: Mine City Museum of History and Folklore, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (MMHF); The National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan (NMNS); Geowissenschaftliches Museum der Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (GZG.INV); and Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (NHMW)
Metadata
Database number:152134
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-11-08 17:09:24 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-08 17:09:24
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

48827. B. Thuy, Y. Ishida, E. Doi and A. Kroh. 2013. New ophiacanthid brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Upper Triassic of Japan: first insights into the origin and evolution of an extant deep-sea group. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11:515-530 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]