Kitsunezaki-sawa River, Locality 1, Nabekoshi Mountain, Kesennuma City (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.9° N, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 118.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toyoma Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray lime mudstone

• Limestone lens in largely siliciclastic succession
• Gray micritic limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: J. Tazawa. 1975. Uppermost Permian fossils from the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 81:629-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118962: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
 Fusulinina - Colaniellidae
Colaniella parva Colani 1924