Abstract
The Kawahigashi fauna from the upper part of the Maizuru Group (Changhsingian) in the Kawahigashi and Yakuno areas, Kyoto Prefecture, Maizuru Belt, southwest Japan is a typical Boreal-Tethyan mixed brachiopod fauna. It contains the Boreal (antitropical) elements Lamnimargus and Megousia and the Tethyan element Eolyttonia. The Maizuru Belt, with some Late Permian (Lopingian) Boreal-Tethyan mixed brachiopod faunas such as the Kawahigashi fauna, was probably a foreland basin, which was located at the eastern margin of North China (Sino-Korea) and belonged to the transitional zone between the Boreal and Tethyan realms in the Late Permian.
