Where: Aomori, Japan (40.8° N, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 137.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tanosawa Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1944. Note on a fossil Dendrophyllia from the Miocene of the Tugaru District in Aomori-Ken. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 51(607):135-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122544: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Dendrophyllia koiwaii n. sp.
Dendrophyllia koiwaii n. sp. Yabe and Eguchi 1944 stony coral |