Ochishimoshinden: Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Deltocyathus orientalis Duncan 1876
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum transversale Moseley 1881
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Heterocyathus japonicus (Verrill 1866)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Chiba
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 140.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 140.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92683
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-24 05:32:07 Last modified:2009-11-24 07:32:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-24 05:32:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31200. H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1942. Fossil and recent simple corals from Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Geology 22(2):105-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]