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Kanokura Formation

Invalid synonym: Kanokura Group

• Coherent formation
• middle Permian
• Correlation: Uchikawame Formation, Usuginu Formation, Higashifukakaya Formation, Shinden Formation, Tenjinnoki Formation, Iwaizaki Formation, Oashi Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Usuginu Conglomerate, Slate, Limestone

• Thickness: 450 - 1,000 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Toyoma Formation)
• Lower limit: Conformity (Sakamotozawa Formation, partly Unconformity?)

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

• Distribution: Kesennuma city, Miyagi pref.
• Fossils: Trilobites (Phillipsia sp.), Ammonoids (Paraceltites cf. elegans), Corals (Waagenophyllum polyseptala), Crinoids, Bryozoans, Jellyfish (Conularia rectangularis), Plants (Richthofenia sp.)
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Acanthopecten spinosus, Aviculopecten interstialis, Crenipecten kesenensis, Liebea sinensis, Myophoria sub-elegans var. tobai, Pleuronectites interlineatus
• Fossils (Brachiopods): Camarophoria humbletonensis, Chonetes blanfordi var. lata, Chonetes sinuosa, Derbyia hemispnaerica, Dielasma cf. biplex, Leptodus (Lyttonia) richthofeni, Orthotetes rugosa, Leptodus richthoferni, Productus cora, Productus flemingii, Productus horridus, Productus villiersi kozlowskianus, Productus vishnu, Rhynchonella (Uncinulus) jabieosis, Spirifells cf. saranae, Spiriferina cristata
• Fossils (Fusulinids): Neoschwagerina sp., Parafusulina sp., Pseudodoliolina sp., Pseudofusulina sp., Schwagerina sp., Verbeekina sp., Yabeina sp.

• Kambe and Shimazu (1961) Kesennuma, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 73p. (in Japanese with English abstract 16p.)