Yozadake quarry, Okinawa Island, 3KoQ (Pleistocene to of Japan)

Also known as Reef 3933

Where: Japan (26.1° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 127.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• unit 2 of Odawara 2005; 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 3.0 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 87984: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• corals only
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
encrusting/platy Porites