Gongen-dani Valley, Ryozensan Mountain: Sakmarian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae
3 specimens
147 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Acratiidae
29 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Beecherellidae
15 specimens
7 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
145 specimens
18 specimens
31 specimens
20 specimens
21 specimens
11 specimens
102 specimens
13 specimens
17 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
46 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
2 specimens
2 specimens
3 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Sigilliidae
15 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
28 specimens
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kellettinidae
66 specimens
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
22 specimens
5 specimens
35 specimens
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
35 specimens
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Knightinidae
22 specimens
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
28 specimens
Schubertellidae
Biwaella omiensis Morikawa and Isomi 1960
Schwagerinidae
Pseudofusulina fusiformis (Schellwien 1909)
Pseudofusulina regularis (Schellwien 1898)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 136.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.0° North, 138.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 1
Key time interval: Sakmarian
Age range of interval: 293.52 - 290.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ryozensan Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: According to Miyamura et al. (1975), the limestones contain fusulinid foraminifera such as Pseudofusulina vulgaris (Schellwien), P. vulgaris var. globosa (Schellwien), P. regularis (Schellwien), P. fusiformis (Schellwien and Dyhrenfurth), Paraschwagerina (Acervoschwagerina) sp., Schubertella kingi Dunbar and Skinner and Biwaella omiensis Morikawa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: Grey-coloured limestone, micritic limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Micropalaeontology Collection, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan (MPC-number).
Metadata
Database number:197662
Authorizer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-11-21 19:53:02 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-11-21 19:53:02
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67398. G. Tanaka, Y. Miyake, T. Ono, A. H. Yuan, M. Ichida, H. Maeda, and S. Crasquin. 2018. Early Permian (Cisuralian) ostracods from Japan: characteristic ostracod assemblage from a seamount of the Panthalassic Ocean. Zootaxa 4515:1-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]