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Collection: Tao, Uonashi, Ehime Prefecture Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Age | 251.3 - 247.2 Ma (Early/Lower Triassic) |
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Interval | Smithian |
Lat/Long | 33.4,132.8 |
Co-ordinates derived from | based on nearby landmark |
Location | Tao |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan |
Geographic Scale | outcrop |
Formation | Tao |
Stratigraphic Scale | bed |
Straigraphic Comments | Correlated with Anasibirites zone |
Lithology Description | Fossils are crowded forming a thin coquinoid layer ten and several centimeters thick in a gray limestone |
Lithology | packstone |
Environment | marine indet. |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Preservation | Age |
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Bakevellia genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Bakevelliidae : Bakevellia | aragonite, low Mg calcite body | 251.3 - 247.2 Ma Early/Lower Triassic |
Pinna genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Pinnidae : Pinna | low Mg calcite, aragonite body | 251.3 - 247.2 Ma Early/Lower Triassic |
Eumorphotis genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Pectinida : Etheripectinidae : Eumorphotis | low Mg calcite, aragonite body | 251.3 - 247.2 Ma Early/Lower Triassic |
Leptochondria minima species | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Pectinida : Hunanopectinidae : Leptochondria : Leptochondria minima | low Mg calcite, aragonite body | 251.3 - 247.2 Ma Early/Lower Triassic |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!