Miyako-jima - Ryukyu Group - site M10: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia spp. Oken 1815
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 24.8° North, 125.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Many pages of description and stratigraphy in paper. "coral limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: field sketches / photographs.
Taxonomic list comments:Based on figure 46, example of community B.
Metadata
Database number:62772
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Kosnik Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-27 16:38:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2006-07-27 16:38:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
18107. T. Nakamori. 1986. Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Tohoku University Science Reports, Second Series, Geology 56(2):71-133 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]