Minamidai, Akiyoshi, outer reef flat: Serpukhovian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Geyerophyllidae
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Amygdalophylloides sp.
Dobrolyubova and Kabakovich 1948
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rare category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Pseudopavonidae
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Taisyakuphyllum sp.
Minato 1955
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rare category | ||||||
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Hiroshimaphyllum sp.
Kato and Minato 1974
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abundant category | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Aulophyllidae
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| 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] |