Also known as Reef 2026

Where: Japan (34.7° N, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 135.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Megami Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• late Early-early Middle Miocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Ozawa, K. Inoue, and S. Tomida. 1995. Early to Middle Miocene molluscan fossils from the Megami and Ebie limestones in Shizuoka Prefecture and their implications for the formation of a Miocene coral-algal reef within the Japanese faunal realm. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 179:175-183 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70064: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.03.2007

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