Ebirase: Tithonian - Berriasian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa - Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha cf. asiatica Yabe and Sugiyama
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Baron-Szabo 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kumamoto
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.3° North, 138.0° 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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
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:91400
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-18 02:17:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-09-18 02:17:46
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]