Hateruma-jima, terrace V: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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 - Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 214 ± 13 to 69 ± 2 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ryukyu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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:127199
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-03 18:23:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-05-03 18:23:55
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]