Tsuyama, KA-T2 locality: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okayama
Coordinates: 35.1° North, 134.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 131.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Katsuta Formation:Yoshino
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Langhian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:181267
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-08-31 09:12:35 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-03-03 09:12:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

60261. S. Niko, S. Suzuki, and E. Taguchi. 2016. Madrepora mitsukurii, a new Miocene species of scleractinia coral from the Katsuta Group in the Tsuyama area, Okayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Akioshi-dai Museum of Natural History (51)5-8 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]