Oyabu Valley, Shinkai (Jurassic to of Japan)

Where: Oita, Japan (32.9° N, 131.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 134.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shinkai Formation, Oxfordian to Oxfordian (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• limestone lens of the Torinosu type

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Yamagiwa, M. Tamura, and H. Tanaka. 1988. Some hexacorals from the Shinkai Formation, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, C 14(2):71-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85625: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia cf. corallina Koby 1881 stony coral
Stylina (Stylina) shinkaiensis n. sp. stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
? Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae