Ogasa-gun (Pliocene of Japan)

Where: Shizuoka, Japan (34.8° N, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 137.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1942. Fossil and recent simple corals from Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Geology 22(2):105-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92644: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Heterocyathus japonicus Verrill 1866 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum, "Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral