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Kamiyoshida Subunit Fujimoto, 1935

Invalid synonym: Kamiyoshida Group, Kamiyoshida Formation, Upper Jomine Subunit

• Type locality: Kamiyoshida, Chichibu city, Saitama prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): Late Carboniferous - Permian, Middle - Late Triassic (Fusulinids)
• Deposition (Chert): Late Carboniferous - Permian - Triassic (Radiolarians, Conodonts)
• Deposition (Matrix): Middle Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Accretion: Jurassic

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Metamorphic facies: Pumpellyite-Actinolite
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies
• Matrix: Mudstone
• Matrix (Minor): Siliceous shale, Sandstone
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Chert, Green rocks, Limestone

• Thickness: 800 - 1,050 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Kamiyoshida - Kurao, Chichibu city, Saitama pref.; Hinosawa - Kazahaya pass, Minano city, Chichibu county, Saitama pref.; Mount Sengen - Mount Kirinojo, Manba, Kanna city, Tano county, Gunma pref.
• Fossils (Slate, Trace fossils): Polychaetes, Gastropods
• Fossils (Limestone): Corals
• Fossils (Limestone, Conodonts): Gladigondolella lethydia, Gladigondolella malayensis, Neogondolella bulgarica, Neogondolella polygnathiformis, Streptognathodus sp.
• Fossils (Limestone, Fusulinids): Millerella sp., Neoschwagerina margaritae, Parafusulina kaerimizuensis, Pseudodorlodotia sp., Pseudoschwagerina sp., Rauserella sp., Reicherina sp., Wentzelella sp., Yabeina globosa, Yabeina katoi, Yabeina shiraiwensis
• Fossils (Chert, Conodonts): Cratognathus? cf. sweeti, Cypridolella sp., Epigondolella abneplis, Epigondolella primitia, Misikella hernsteini, Neogondolella bulgarica, Neogondolella excelsa, Neogondolella navicula, Neogondolella polygnathiformis, Neohindeodella benderi, Neospathodus homeri, Neospathodus timorensis
• Fossils (Chert, Radilarians): Archaeodictyomitra sp., Crucella? sp., Diacanthocapsa sp., Dictyomitrella sp., Eucyrtidium sp., Flustrella sp., Gongylothorax oblonga, Paronaella sp., Stichocapsa convexa, Stichocapsa japonica, Syringocapsa sp., Tricolocapsa plicarum, Tricolocapsa aff. rüsti
• Deposit: Bedded manganese deposit

• Hisada et al. (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.7, pp.325-342, DOI
• Makimoto and Takeuchi (1992) Geology of the Yorii District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 136p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)
• Okubo and Horiguchi (1969) Geology of the Mamba District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 65p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)