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Upper Member

• Accretionary complex
• Siliceous rocks on the ocean floor and at the lower slope of a seamount in the ocean.
• Deposition: Late Triassic (Radiolarians)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Interbedded siliceous micrite and chert

• Thickness: 10 - 60 m

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

• Distribution: eastern Mount Funabuse, Gifu pref.
• Distribution: Shiraiwa valley, Kanzaki, Yamagata city, Gifu pref.; Konjima, Yamagata city, Gifu pref.; Enbara river - Mandokoro, Enbara, Yamagata city, Gifu pref.; Higashitani river - Wai valley, Neo, Motosu city, Gifu pref.
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Canesium sp., Capnodoce sp., Capnochosphaera sp., Pseudostylosphaera compactum, Pseudostylosphaera japonica, Triassocampe deweveri, Xipha nodosa, Xiphotheca sp., Yeharaia compsa, Capnodoce anapetes, Capnochosphaera colemani, Epigondolella quadrata

• Sano (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.6, pp.449-467 DOI
• Kuwahara et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.3, pp.159-173 DOI