Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.3° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 127.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sobe Formation (Ryukyu Group), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• 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).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, conglomeratic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. Stearns MacNeil; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190256: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina perplexa n. sp.
Terebratulina perplexa n. sp. Cooper 1957 | |
Kikaithyris hanzawai Yabe 1932 |