Hateruma-jima, terrace I: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Favites sp. Link 1807
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 24.1° North, 123.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 256 ± 16 to 207 ± 9 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ryukyu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: oxygen isotope stage 7
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:127188
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-03 00:05:29 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-05-03 00:05:29
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
41375. A. Omura. 1984. Uranium-series age of the Riukiu Limestone on Hateruma Island, southwestern Ryukyus. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 135:415-426 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]