Takanasaki Fm, Hateruma-jima, loc no. H1 (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (24.0° N, 123.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 123.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Takanasaki Formation (Ryukyu Group), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: field sketches / photographs.

Primary reference: T. Nakamori. 1986. Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Tohoku University Science Reports, Second Series, Geology 56(2):71-133 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62794: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Based on plates in paper... they have sp. level id.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris yabei Pillai and Scheer 1976 stony coral
pl 24
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia scutaria Lamarck 1801 stony coral
pl 24
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea valenciennesii" = Favites valenciennesii, Goniastrea pectinata
"Montastrea valenciennesii" = Favites valenciennesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
pl 25 [entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
Goniastrea pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
pl 25