Katsuyama (UF) Section, Inuyama, KARE-31: Rhaetian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cyclostomi - Conodontophorida - Gondolellidae
Misikella sp. Kozur and Mock 1974
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Deflandrecyrtiidae
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Livarellidae
Livarella sp. Kozur and Mostler 1981
Livarella valida Yoshida 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 136.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° North, 162.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Rhaetian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 4
Key time interval: Rhaetian Zone:  Haeckelicyrtium breviora
Age range of interval: 205.7 - 201.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper Rhaetian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red or brown lithified chert
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: rythmically alternating sequence of light red-brown chert and shale beds
Environment:basinal (siliceous) Tectonic setting:deep ocean basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original silica
Size of fossils:microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,hydroflouric,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:54215
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Riess
Modifier:A. Kocsis Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2005-09-27 03:03:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-27 03:03:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

14663. E. S. Carter and R. S. Hori. 2005. Global correlation of the radiolarian faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42(5):777-790 [W. Kiessling/M. Riess]