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Akasaka Limenstone

• Type locality: Mount Kinsho, Akasaka village, Ogaki city, Gifu prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Reef seamount
• Permian, ? - Wuchiapingian

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Limestone

• Upper limit: Unknown
• Lower limit: Unknown

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Mount Kinshozan, Akasaka village, Ogaki city, Gifu pref.
• Fossils: Corals (Waagenophyllum akasakensis), Stromatooroids (Stromatopora (Parallerodon) minoensis), Calcareous algae (Eogoniolina johnsoni, Mizzia velebitana)
• Fossils (Bivalves): Aviculopecten minoensis, Aviculopecten reticularis, Myophoria japonica, Liebea sinensis, Parallelodon obsoletiformis, Solenomorpha elegantissima
• Fossils (Scaphopods): Dentalium akasakensis, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) cf. priscum, Dentalium neornatum, Dentalium (Plagioglypta) herculeum
• Fossils (Gastropods): Bellerophon jonensianus, Bellerophon jonensianus var. hiuliciformis, Murchisonia yabei, Naticella japonica, Naticopsis minoensis, Naticopsis cf. praealta, Naticopsis wakimizui, Pleurotomaria aff. multicarinata, Pleurotomaria yokoyama, Solenospira multicostata, Spiromorphus yabei, Trachydomia conica, Trachydomia magna
• Fossils (Brachiopods): Coscinophora magnifica, Geyerella sp., Leptodus nobilis, Leptodus richthofeni, Peltichia akasakensis (Enteletes suessi, Enteletes minoensis), Scacchinella gigantea, Squamularia asiatica, Squamularia cf. inequilateralis, Squamularia waageni, Terebraluloidea sp.
• Fossils (Fusulinids): Cancellina nipponica, Cancellina schellwieni, Fusulinella compressa, Fusulinella phairayensis, Fusulinella simplex, Geinitzia ovata, Glomospira sp., Neoschwagerina colaniae, Neoschwagerina craticulifer, Neoschwagerina margaritae, Neoschwagerina minoensis, Neoschwagerina multicircumvoluta, Neoschwagerina simplex, Pseudodoliolina ozawai lepida, Pseudodoliolina ozawai magnae, Pseudofusulina ambigua, Pseudofusulina granum-avenae, Pseudofusulina japonica, Pseudofusulina japonica var. truncata, Pseudofusulina kraffti, Schubertella giraudi, Sumatrina annae, Triticites subobsoleta okuboensis, Verbeekina verbeeki sphaera, Verbeekina verbeeki verbeeki, Yabeina globosa, Yabein katoi

• Tazawa et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.4, pp.137-141 DOI
• Tazawa and Ono (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.1, pp.51-55 DOI
• Isomi (1955) Ogaki, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 24p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)