Southern Higashiyama, Phylloid facies, Omi River, Japan: Moscovian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Ivanovia sp. Dobrolyubova 1935
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Eugonophyllum sp. Konishi and Wray 1961
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
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: Phylloid algal boundstones. Marine cements common.
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
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3087
Database number:24136
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-01 04:57:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-01 04:57:39
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]