Akaushi Port: Spathian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hemilecanitidae
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Columbitidae
Shigeta et al. 2024
Shigeta et al. 2024
Neocolumbites grammi Zakharov 1968
Shigeta et al. 2024
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hellenitidae
Shigeta et al. 2024
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:stated in text
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: Lowest part of the Osawa Formation; early Spathian on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified mudstone
Lithology description: Laminated mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba (NMNS)
Metadata
Also known as:OS-A02
Database number:226907
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2022-08-06 13:47:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-08-06 13:47:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

89801 Y. Shigeta, Y. Endo, and H. Inose. 2024. Spathian (Late Olenekian, Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Osawa Formation, South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 28(s1):1-55 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]