Fk-1b, Ozashi area, Jusanhama: Anisian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Orthoceratoidea
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Miyagi
Coordinates: 38.6° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.4° North, 140.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian
Age range of interval: 247 - 241.464 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fukkoshi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: age of Formation based on presence of ammonoids (Hollandites sp., Balatonites cf. kitakamicus, Gymnites cf. watanabei)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ... that mainly consists of sandstone and alternationg beds of sandstone and mudstone. The deposits intercalate with thick laminated sandy mudstone beds, about 30 meters in total thickness, in its middle part
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: Fukkoshi Formation represents the submarine fan compley deposited in a deep-water environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University (IGPS)
Metadata
Database number:214972
Authorizer:B. Seuss Enterer:B. Seuss
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-10-26 05:50:52 Last modified:2025-02-27 22:12:56
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-26 05:50:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

74162. S. Niko and M. Ehiro. 2020. Trematoceras watanabei, a new orthoconic nautiloid species from the Middle Triassic Fukkoshi Formation, Miyagi Prefecture, Northeast Japan. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 19:1-6 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/M. Clapham]