FH-4, Mount Sora-yama, Fukuji area, Fukuji Formation, Gifu: Lochkovian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
6 individuals
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Orthoceratoidea
Niko 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 137.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Early Devonian
Stage: Lochkovian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 1
Key time interval: Lochkovian
Age range of interval: 419.62 - 413.02 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fukuji Member:D 1
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61144
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-30 05:34:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-30 05:34:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

17574. S. Niko. 2001. Devonian Auloporid Tabulate Corals from the Fukuji Formation, Gifu Prefecture. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C 27(3, 4):73-88 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

83371 S. Niko. 1998. Kobayashiceras gifuense, a new actinocerid cephalopod from the Lower Devonian of Japan. Journal of Paleontology 72(1):36-38 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]