Oodo quarry, Okinawa Island, Oo2 (Pleistocene of Japan)

Also known as Reef 3933

Where: Japan (26.1° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 127.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naha Formation (Ryukyu Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• older than 0.85 Ma based on nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• distal/off-reef setting?
• coral interlayers within rhodolith limestone, size of sample quadrat: 1.3 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 87990: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• corals only
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Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea sp.
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia ex gr. maxima" = Dipsastraea maxima, Cyphastrea sp., Favites sp.
"Favia ex gr. maxima" = Dipsastraea maxima Veron and Pichon 1977 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet., Favia sp.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 2", Porites "sp. 3"
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
encrusting/platy Porites
Porites "sp. 3" Link 1807 stony coral
Porites/Montipora
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungiidae indet.
Fungiidae indet. Dana 1846 stony coral