Cape Iwaizaki (Unit 6): Wordian, Japan
collected by S. Niko

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 141.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.8° North, 137.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3
Key time interval: Wordian
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Iwaizaki
Stratigraphy comments: Kawamura and Machiyama (1995) subdivided the limestone into eight lithologic units. The coral is derived from Unit 6 in their subdivision. This unit belongs to the Pseudofusulina paramotohashii fusulinacean zone of Wordian (= middle Guadalupian; middle Middle Permian) age (Morikawa, 1960)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified packstone
Lithology description: Gray limestone (bioclastic packstone to grainstone) in coral biolithite
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: Coral and algal biolithites indicating reef facies (Shen and Kawamura, 2001)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Niko
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Nature and Sciences, Tokyo
Metadata
Database number:179818
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-02 09:51:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-02 09:51:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

59646. S. Niko. 2015. Yakunopora mabutii, a new species of tabulate coral from the Permian Iwaizaki Limestone, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C 41:25-28 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]