USGS 17543, Highway 6 quarry (WF 234): Middle Pleistocene, Japan
collected by Warren Fuller
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cancellothyrididae
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Terebratulina sp.
d'Orbigny 1847
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Marmorostoma argyrostoma
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MacNeil 1960 | ||||||
spelled with current rank as Turbo (Marmarostoma) | |||||||
Turbo petholatus
Linnaeus 1758
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MacNeil 1960 | ||||||
recombined as Turbo (Turbo) petholatus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Trochus calcaratus
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MacNeil 1960 | ||||||
Trochus niloticus
Linnaeus 1767
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MacNeil 1960 | ||||||
recombined as Tectus (Rochia) niloticus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cribraria (Talostolida) teres
(Gmelin 1791)
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MacNeil 1960 | ||||||
recombined as Talostolida teres | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Pyrene aff. flava
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus aff. textile
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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
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: | 42356 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy, M. Clapham | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-28 09:31:37 | Last modified: | 2019-12-18 14:38:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-28 09:31:37 |
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] |