Akaushi, Motoyoshi-cho (Subcolumbites zone): Spathian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hellenitidae
    = Hellenites tchernyschewiensis Zakharov 1968
Shigeta 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.9° North, 138.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
Stage: Olenekian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Spathian
Age range of interval: 248.6 - 247 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Osawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Subcolumbites perrinismithi zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Department of Geology, Kaguwa University
Metadata
Database number:186962
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-07-08 11:34:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-08 11:34:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

33127. Y. Bando and S. Shimoyama. 1974. Late Scythian ammonoids from the Kitakami Massif. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 94:293-312 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

82377 Y. Shigeta. 2022. Revision of early Spathian (late Olenekian, Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Osawa Formation at Akaushi in the Motoyoshi area, South Kitakami Belt, Northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 26:405-419 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]