KAS-27, Kamase: Norian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Reimaniphylliidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 130.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.6° North, 142.3° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227.3 - 205.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified rudstone |
| Lithology description: sponge-coral floatstone, sponge bafflestone, coral rudstone, peloidal-bioclastic packstone-grainstone, tubular problematica-rich wackestone, lime-mudstone | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: patch reef on the top of a mid-oceanic seamount | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Collection method comments: Repository: University of Montana Paleontology Center (UMIP) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 165289 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-01-17 10:17:43 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-17 10:17:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33787. | T. Onoue and G. D. Stanley. 2008. Sedimentary facies from Upper Triassic reefal limestone of the Sambosan accretionary complex in Japan: mid-ocean patch reef development in the Panthalassa Ocean. Facies 54:529-547 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |