USGS 17644, Sobe (FSM 55b): Middle Pleistocene, Japan
collected by F. Stearns MacNeil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cancellothyrididae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Okinawa |
| Coordinates: | 26.4° North, 127.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse poorly lithified conglomeratic "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Limestone, though coarser than that of the Naha. Locally it consists of unsorted detrital fragments up to a foot in dimension | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: Coral reef environment, according to Takayasu (1978) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | F. Stearns MacNeil |
Metadata
| Database number: | 190253 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-12-03 20:24:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-03 20:24:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39467. | G. A. Cooper. 1957. Tertiary and Pleistocene Brachiopods of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 314(A):1-20 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |