USGS 17450 Iwa (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.2° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 127.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shimijiri Marl Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. D. Cairns. 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557:1-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia (Premocyathus) compressa Yabe and Eguchi 1942 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae