Okawachi: Norian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Gruenewaldia decussata (Munster 1838)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Palaeocardita sp. Conrad 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 142.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Norian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 4
Key time interval: Norian
Age range of interval: 227.3 - 205.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: muddy limestones
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98643
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-10-15 04:50:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-15 04:50:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34033. M. Tamura and E. Nishimura. 1994. Description of Upper Triassic Kyushutrigonia hachibarensis, new genus and new species with revision of trigonian species from Sambosan Terrane, Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Education Kumamoto University, Natural science 43:15-23 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]