Kuruma: Pliensbachian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniaceae
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Dryopteridaceae
Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Cyatheaceae
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Bennettitales
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 137.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.3° North, 166.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval: Pliensbachian
Age range of interval: 192.9 - 184.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shinadani
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Metadata
Also known as:PGAP 473
Database number:30203
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:A. Rees
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-02 12:40:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-02 12:40:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

8071.PGAP 49T. Kimura, T. Ohana, and M. Tsujii. 1988. Early Jurassic plants in Japan. Part 8. Supplementary description and concluding remarks. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan (151)501-522 [A. Rees/A. Rees]