Where: Okinawa, Japan (24.0° N, 123.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 123.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; 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 62770: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006

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