USGS 17445 Yonabaru: Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Turbinoliidae
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Tropidocyathus pileus
(Alcock 1902)
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Okinawa |
| Coordinates: | 26.2° North, 127.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 122803 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-06 01:29:25 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-01-06 01:29:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31202. | S. D. Cairns. 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557:1-150 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |