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
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Anthozoa | |
Peponocyathus australiensis stony coral | |
Caryophyllia (Premocyathus) compressa Yabe and Eguchi 1942 stony coral |