ammonites
Sonobe-cho, Funai-gun, Kyoto Prefecture (Carboniferous of Japan)

Where: Japan (35.1° N, 135.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 99.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Triticites montiparus foram zone, Kannontoge Formation, Kasimovian (306.9 - 303.4 Ma)

• Now Montiparus montiparus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Teruo Shimizu

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: S. Sakaguchi and N. Yamagiwa. 1963. Additional notes on late Palaeozoic corals found in the southern part of the Tamba district. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 49:9-14 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117137: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2011

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