USGS 17544, Morioka Quarry (WF 235): Middle Pleistocene, Japan
collected by Warren Fuller

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Frenulinidae
Frenulina sanguinolenta (Gmelin 1790)
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus niloticus Linnaeus 1767
MacNeil 1960
recombined as Tectus (Rochia) niloticus
Trochus calcaratus
MacNeil 1960
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758
MacNeil 1960
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Marmorostoma argyrostoma
MacNeil 1960
spelled with current rank as Turbo (Marmarostoma)
Turbo petholatus Linnaeus 1758
MacNeil 1960
recombined as Turbo (Turbo) petholatus
Gastropoda - Hipponicidae
Hipponix (Antisabia) foliaceus
MacNeil 1960
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus cf. glans
MacNeil 1960
Conus cf. vitulinus Hwass in Bruguiére 1792
MacNeil 1960
synonym of Conus planorbis
Conus lividus Bruguière 1792
MacNeil 1960
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ceratostoma brachypteron
MacNeil 1960
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea" aff. asellus Linnaeus 1758
MacNeil 1960
recombined as Cypraea (Palmadusta) asellus
Staphylaea (Nuclearia) nucleus (Linnaeus 1758)
MacNeil 1960
recombined as Cypraea (Staphylaea) nucleus
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 26.4° North, 127.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.4° North, 127.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu Formation:Sobe
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Yontan Limestone is the upper part of the Ryukyu Limestone, now called the Sobe Formation. Early middle Pleistocene in age (Odawara et al., 2005).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse poorly lithified conglomeratic "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, though coarser than that of the Naha. Locally it consists of unsorted detrital fragments up to a foot in dimension
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: Coral reef environment, according to Takayasu (1978)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Warren Fuller
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for gastropoda. No bivalves.
Metadata
Database number:42355
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-28 09:31:27 Last modified:2019-12-18 14:37:54
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-28 09:31:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
39467. G. A. Cooper. 1957. Tertiary and Pleistocene Brachiopods of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 314(A):1-20 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

7337 F. S. MacNeil. 1960. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339:1-148 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]