Also known as Reef 3934
Where: Japan (28.3° N, 130.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 130.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ryukyu Group, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• ESR age of 0.61 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
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 88041: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus, Favites sp.
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
Leptoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Leptoseris ? solida Quelch 1886 stony coral
Pachyseris speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral | |
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Acanthastrea ex gr. echinata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Plesiastrea ? versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Turbinaria ? reniformis Bernard 1896 stony coral |