Iwaizaki, Japan: Wordian - Capitanian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhodophyceae
- Solenoporaceae
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Solenoporaceae indet.
Pia 1927
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Parachaetetes sp.
Deninger 1906
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unclassified
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Cyanobacteria indet.
Stanier 1973
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Cyanophyceae
- Aphralysiaceae
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Archaeolithoporella sp.
Endo 1959
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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| End reef builders | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lithostrotionidae
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Yatsengia sp.
Huang 1932
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Waagenophyllidae
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Parawentzelella sp.
Fontaine 1961
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Waagenophyllum sp.
Hayasaka 1924
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Aulocystidae
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Sinopora sp.
Sokolov 1955
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Hydrozoa
- Nigriporellidae
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Tubiphytes sp.
Maslov 1956
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 141.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° North, 136.4° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Wordian - Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| *Period: | Middle Permian | ||
| Key time interval: | Wordian - Capitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 266.9 - 259.51 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Iwaizaki Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: Coral reef with substrate of bioclastic grainstone/packstone, core of framestone, bindstone and bafflestone, flank with lensoid bioclastic grainstone and rudstone | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: coral reef complex formed on a faulted-bank in an active continental margin. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Incomplete | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 210 | ||
| Database number: | 24126 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-08-01 02:45:49 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-01 02:45:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6821. | J.-w. Shen and T. Kawamura. 2001. Guadalupian algae-sponge reefs in siliciclastic environments – the reefs at Lengwu (South China) compared with the reef at Iwaizaki (Japan). Facies 45:137-156 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |
Secondary references:
| 9252 | T. Kawamura and H. Machiyama. 1995. A Late Permian coral reef complex, South Kitakami Terrane, Japan. Sedimentary Geology 99:135-150 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |