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Togano Unit (Kobayashi, 1931) Matsuoka et al., 1998

Invalid synonym: Kurano Group, Hosono Group, Tairyuji Group

• Type locality: Togano, Kochi prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): middlePermian, Triassic
• Deposition (Siliceous clay rocks): Early Triassic
• Deposition (Chert): Permian, Middle Triassic - Late Jurassic
• Deposition (Siliceous mudstone): Middle - Late Jurassic
• Deposition (Mudstone): Late Jurassic, Oxfordian - Tithonian - Early Cretaceous, Berriasian
• Accretion: Jurassic
• Correlation: Unazawa Unit, Tsuiji Complex, Inumodorikyo Complex, Daifugendake Complex, Iwaki Formation (western Shikoku), Furuyabu Unit II, Youra Unit, Shakumasan Unit, Unit IV, Momigi Unit, Ie Unit

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Coherent facies (Chert-clastic sequence)
• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Siliceous clay rocks, Chert, Siliceous mudstone, Limestone, Basalt

• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Kanto - Akaishi mountains - Shima peninsula - Kii peninsula, southern Shikoku - southern Kyushu - Okinawa
• Distribution: Nakagawa river - Mononobegawa river - Hisaidanigawa river - Oriudanigawa river - Tochidanigawa river - Nishisemitani - Kominono dam, Naka city, Naka county, Tokushima pref.
• Fossils: Radiolarians, Conodonts
• Fossils (Limestone): Fusulinids

• Miyazaki (2024) Geology of the Iyo-Nagahama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 155p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Takahashi et al. (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.1, pp.1-22, DOI
• Hara et al. (2014) Geology of the Kitagawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Kiminami and Toda (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.4, pp.158-167 DOI