PBDB Collection

Ko.278, Kuma River: Carnian, Japan

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Cladogirvanella cipitensis Ott 1966	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
	Nipponophycus kanmerai (pl 1, figs 3,4; pl 2, figs 1,2 in Endo & Horiguchi, 1967)

	Porifera indet. Grant 1836
	vesicular calcisponges
Demospongiae - Chaetetida

	Chaetetida informal indet. 1	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012

	Chaetetida informal indet. 2	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
	Solenopora kumensis (pl 4 fig 1) in Endo and Horiguchi, 1967
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Preperonidellidae

	Permocorynella informal sp. 1	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Solenolmiidae

	Solenolmia manon (Münster 1841)	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
	ssp. manon
Hexactinellida

	Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
	Possibly Aka sp.
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Procyclolitidae

	? Procyclolites aff. timoricus		1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae

	Thamnasteria furukawai n. sp. Kanmera 1964		2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae

	Montlivaltia cf. norica Frech 1890		3 specimens

	Procyclolites cf. triadicus Frech 1890		4 specimens
	= Craspedophyllia japonica Stanley and Onoue 2015	Stanley and Onoue 2015

	? Procyclolites sp. Frech 1890		1 specimen
	= Craspedophyllia ramosa Roniewicz et al. 2005	Stanley and Onoue 2015

	? Conophyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849		3 specimens
	= Craspedophyllia ramosa Roniewicz et al. 2005	Stanley and Onoue 2015

	Thecosmilia eguchii n. sp. Kanmera 1964		4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae

	Montlivaltia cf. stylophylloides Vinassa de Regny 1915		1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae

	? Elysastraea sp. Laube 1865		1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Tropiastraeidae

	Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823		2 specimens
	= Astraeomorpha cf. confusa Winckler 1861	Prinz-Grimm 1995
	= Thamnasteriamorpha okudai Stanley and Onoue 2015	Stanley and Onoue 2015
Hydrozoa - Nigriporellidae

	"Tubiphytes" gracilis Schafer and Senowbary-Daryan 1983	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
Hydrozoa - Spongiomorphida

	Spongiomorphida indet. Alloiteau 1952
unclassified

	Ladinella porata Ott 1968	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
Crinoidea

	Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
unclassified

	informal Stromatolite indet.

	Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae

	Nipponophycus kanmerai Endo and Horiguchi 1967	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae

	Solenoporaceae indet. Pia 1927	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
	?Parachaetetes sp. or ?Solenopora sp. (Solenopora kumensis pl 3, figs 1,2; pl 4, figs 2 in Endo & Horiguchi 1967)

	Parachaetetes cassianus (Flugel 1961)	Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2012
see common names

Geography

Country:	Japan
Coordinates:	32.3° North, 130.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	16.2° North, 133.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Triassic	Epoch:	Late Triassic
Stage:	Carnian	10 m.y. bin:	Triassic 3
Key time interval:	Carnian
Age range of interval:	237 - 227.3 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Konose	Formation:	Koguchi
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age updated to Carnian by Senowbari-Daryan et al. (2012).

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "reef rocks"
Environment:	reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: Limestone clasts in a debris flow deposit.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	medium
Bioerosion:	occasional

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University

Metadata

Also known as:	Reef 166
Database number:	34883
Authorizer:	W. Kiessling, M. Clapham	Enterer:	W. Kiessling, M. Clapham
Modifier:	M. Clapham	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2003-10-09 09:43:28	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2003-10-09 09:43:28
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

9355.

K. Kanmera. 1964. Triassic coral faunas from the Konos Group in Kyushu. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 15(1):117-147 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

9160		P. Prinz-Grimm. 1995. Triassische Korallen der südlichen Zentral-Anden. Geologica et Palaeontologica 29:233-243 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
43124		B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. D. Stanley, and T. Onoue. 2012. Upper Triassic (Carnian) reef biota from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan. Facies 58:671-684 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54074		G. D. Stanley and T. Onoue. 2015. Upper Triassic reef corals from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan. Facies 61(1):1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
10160		G. D. Stanley, jr. and M. T. Whalen. 1989. Triassic Corals and Spongiomorphs from Hells Canyon, Wallowa Terrane, Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 63(6):800-819 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]