Where: Okinawa, Japan (24.0° N, 123.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 123.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Hateruma Formation (Ryukyu Group), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
Collection methods: field sketches / photographs.
Primary reference: T. Nakamori. 1986. Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Tohoku University Science Reports, Second Series, Geology 56(2):71-133 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62770: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acropora "spp. (Tabular)" Oken 1815 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora spp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Porites "spp. (Encrusting)" Link 1807 stony coral
Porites spp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Pachyseris rugosa Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Favia spp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Goniastrea pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Faviinae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral |