Southern Higashiyama, Omi River, Japan: Moscovian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Pseudopavonidae
Pseudopavona sp. Yabe et al. 1943
unclassified
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Pseudopavonidae
common category
encrusting
Demospongiae - Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
abundant category
presumbably diverse
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 137.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Moscovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Epoch:Early/Lower Moscovian
Key time interval: Moscovian Zone:  Fusulinella biconica
Age range of interval: 315.2 - 307 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omi Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Lithology description: Coral-chaetetid and chaetetid boundstones.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Incomplete (no chaetetids and few corals named)
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3086
Database number:24135
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-01 04:56:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-01 04:56:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

6823. T. Nakazawa. 2001. Carboniferous reef succession of the Panthalassan open-ocean setting: Example from Omi Limestone, Central Japan. Facies 44:183-210 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]