Furen limestone, Oita Prefecture (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.0° N, 131.7° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 104.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Furen Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan (Fumio Kobayashi Collection, MNHAM).

Primary reference: F. Kobayashi. 2011. Middle Permian (Wordian) foraminifers of the Furen Limestone, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Humans and Nature 22:21-25 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128708: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Codonofusiella sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1937
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Kahlerina sp. Kochansky-Devide 1955
 Fusulinoidea - Verbeekinidae
Pseudodoliolina sp. Yabe and Hanzawa 1932
Verbeekina verbeeki Geinitz and Marek 1876
 Fusulinoidea - Neoschwagerinidae
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
? Pachyphloia sp. Lange 1925
 Tetrataxoidea - Abadehellidae
Abadehella coniformis Okimura and Ishii 1975
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873