Zenbutsuji-dani, Niisaka-mura, Hiba-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture (Permian of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.0° N, 133.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 107.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zenbutsuji-dani Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Gray compact calcilutite, which contains debris of various microorganisms such as smaller foraminifera, fusulinids, and calcareous algae

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Konishi. 1960. Sinopora dendroidea (Yoh), auloporid coral from Late Permian of western Honshu. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 40:325-328 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110459: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
"Sinopora dendroidea" = Multithecopora dendroidea
"Sinopora dendroidea" = Multithecopora dendroidea Yoh 1932 tabulate coral