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
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
see common names

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
Geological group:Ryukyu Formation:Sobe
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Yontan Limestone is the upper part of the Ryukyu Limestone, now called the Sobe Formation. Early middle Pleistocene in age (Odawara et al., 2005).
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]