Yomitan District - Naha Formation - site Y11 (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.4° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 127.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Many pages of description and stratigraphy in paper. "coral limestone"

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62773: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Based on figure 49, example of community E.
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Euphyllia sp.
Euphyllia sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp.
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Pectinia sp.
Pectinia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora "sp. (Branching)"
Acropora "sp. (Branching)" Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris sp., Leptoseris scabra, Pachyseris speciosa
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Leptoseris scabra Vaughan 1907 stony coral
Pachyseris speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia sp.
Fungia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral