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 3 of Odawara 2005; 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
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 87988: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
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Acroporidae indet. Verrill 1902 stony coral
Acropora monticulosa Brüggemann 1879 stony coral
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
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Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Favites sp., Favites flexuosa, Platygyra sp., Platygyra ryukyuensis, "Favia ex gr. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Favites flexuosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
"Favia ex gr. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral | |