Minamidai, Akiyoshi, outer reef flat: Serpukhovian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Geyerophyllidae
Amygdalophylloides sp. Dobrolyubova and Kabakovich 1948
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Pseudopavonidae
rare category
Hiroshimaphyllum sp. Kato and Minato 1974
abundant category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Serpukhovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 3
Key time interval: Serpukhovian Foram zone:  upper Millerella yowarensis
Age range of interval: 330.3 - 323.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Akiyoshi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: uppermost part of Millerella yowarensis zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Secondary lithology: lithified bafflestone
Lithology description: outer reef flat, main reef builders: rugose corals, chaetetids
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:corals only
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 258
Database number:76324
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-19 02:33:25 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-19 02:33:25
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

25855. T. Sugiyama and K. Nagai. 1994. Reef facies and paleoecology of reef-building corals in the lower part of the Akiyoshi Limestone Group (Carboniferous), southwest Japan. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172:231-240 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]