Study of the Japanese Palaeozoic brachiopods : A historical review

Abstract

H. Yabe, who, in 1900, described Leptodus from the Permian of the southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan, initiated the study of Japanese Palaeozoic brachiopods. This paper is a review of two hundred-seven articles published between 1900 and 2006 about Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian brachiopods from Japan.