Minamidai, Akiyoshi, back reef slope: Bashkirian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Pseudopavonidae
Pseudopavona sp. Yabe et al. 1943
rare category
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Geyerophyllidae
rare category
Amygdalophylloides sp. Dobrolyubova and Kabakovich 1948
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: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Bashkirian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
Key time interval: Bashkirian Foram zone:  Pseudostaffella antiqua
Age range of interval: 323.4 - 315.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Akiyoshi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Pseudostaffella antiqua and Profusulinella beppensis zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Secondary lithology: lithified bindstone
Lithology description: back reef slope, main reef builders: calcareous algae, 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:76326
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-19 02:44:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-19 02:44:28
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]