OG-06, Ogama, Kuzu area: Kungurian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae
Eolyttonia sp. Frederiks 1924
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Cyclacanthariidae
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania sp. Fredericks 1928
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
(1 measurement)
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Martiniidae
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Enteletidae
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 139.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.4° 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:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "the age of the Yamasuge fauna [and Parafusulina yabei Zone] is Artinskian to Kungurian, most probably Kungurian" (Tazawa et al. 2012)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Kuzu Fossil Museum, Kuzu, Sano City, Japan (KFM)
Metadata
Database number:181933
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-10-08 11:07:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-10-08 11:07:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
60512. J. I. Tazawa, Y. Okumura, Y. Miyake and T. Mizuhara. 2016. A Kungurian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from Ogama, Kuzu area, central Japan, and its palaeobiogeographical affinity with the Wolfcampian–Leonardian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna of West Texas, USA. Paleontological Research 20:367-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]