Takauchi float blocks, Yakuno, Kyoto Prefecture: Wuchiapingian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 135.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° North, 128.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
Stage: Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval: 259.857 - 254.14 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Maizuru Formation:Nukata Member:"Takauchi Limestone"
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Palaeofusulina simplex-Colaniella minima zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark greenish gray to gray impure limestone with minor amounts of calcareous shale
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:61154
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-30 07:29:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-30 07:29:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
17577. S. Niko. 2005. Wuchiapingian (Late Permian) Tabulate Corals from the Maizuru Group in the Yakuno Area, Kyoto Prefecture. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C 31:31-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]