Nomura, Torinosu Limestone, Ehime, Shikoku: Tithonian - Berriasian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thaumatoporellales
Nodosariata - Telamminidae
Porostromata
unclassified
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
unclassified
Stromatoporoidea indet. Nicholson and Murie 1878
    = Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Stearn 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 132.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 139.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic - Cretaceous Epoch: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
Stage: Tithonian - Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6 - Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Tithonian - Berriasian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 137.05 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Torinosu Formation:Yatsuji
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: 42% stomatoporoids, 23% corals, 16% microencrusters;
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3336
Database number:68309
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-15 05:29:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-15 05:29:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19650. F. Shiraishi and A. Kano. 2004. Composition and spatial distribution of microencrusters and microbial crusts in Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous reef limestone (Torinosu Limestone, southwest Japan). Facies 50:217-227 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

83040 C. Stearn. 2015. Stromatoporellida, Stromatoporida, Syringostromatida, Amphiporida, and genera with uncertain affinities. In P. A. Selden (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology E revised(5):781-836 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Novack-Gottshall]