Moshi, Omoto-mura: Late Aptian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Helioporacea - Helioporidae
Heliopora japonica Eguchi 1948
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Baron-Szabo 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Iwate
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.1° North, 151.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval: Late Aptian
Age range of interval: 119.57 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miyako Formation:Moshi Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: shallow open-marine setting with abundant fossils (corals, rudists, molluscs, calcareous algae, foraminifers); small coral-rudist buildups may have existed (reef 1216)
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:91324
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-15 02:15:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-09-15 02:15:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
30709. M. Eguchi. 1951. Mesozoic hexacorals from Japan. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Geology 24:1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

30659 R. Baron-Szabo. 2009. Taxonomic opinions on Cretaceous corals. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]