Chuo-Morioka quarries, Okinawa Island, 1YOMQ1 (Pleistocene to of Japan)

Also known as Reef 3932

Where: Japan (26.4° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 127.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sobe Formation (Ryukyu Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• unit 4 of Odawara 2005; 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• upper reef slope
• coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 7.9 m²

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: M. Humblet, Y. Iryu, and T. Nakamori. 2009. Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Marine Geology 259:1-20 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87892: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• corals only
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia ex gr. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Favites stylifera Yabe and Sugiyama 1937 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 1" Link 1807 stony coral
massive Porites
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
encrusting/platy Porites
Porites "sp. 3" Link 1807 stony coral
Porites/Montipora
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp., "Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral