Mizubora-dani Valley, Fukuji area, Gifu Prefecture: Sakmarian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 137.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.6° North, 139.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 1
Key time interval: Sakmarian
Age range of interval: 293.52 - 290.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mizuyagadani
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Mizuyagadani Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green lithified calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: float blocks of greenish-gray calcareous shale
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61141
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-30 03:38:41 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-30 03:38:41
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

17572. S. Niko. 2001. Sakmarian (Early Permian) Tabulate Corals from the Mizuyagadani Formation, Gifu Prefecture. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C 27(1, 2):25-32 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]