Where: Gokase, Japan (32.6° N, 131.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 131.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Gionyama Formation), Telychian to Telychian (438.5 - 425.6 Ma)
• Late Llandovery to Early Ludlow
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified, massive, conglomeratic limestone and lithified shale
•action on a reef slope or along a reef front.
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Author has several papers from this area and locality, but each one describes a single component of the fauna.
Primary reference: E. Kido. 2010. Silurian Rugose corals from the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan, and the first occurrence of Neobrachyelasma. Journal of Paleontology 84(3):466-476 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140714: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Amplexoides aff. chaoi horn coral | |
Nanshanophyllum hamadai Kido 2009 horn coral | |
Neobrachyelasma japonica horn coral | |
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral |