Miyako-jima ls - loc. no. K55: Middle Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Favites rotundata
Veron and Pichon 1977
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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 | Formation: | Miyako-jima |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: field sketches / photographs. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Based on plates in paper... they have sp. level id, not 100% confident on matching to collection localities (different naming scheme used). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 62780 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Kosnik | Enterer: | M. Kosnik |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-27 17:16:47 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2006-07-27 17:16:47 |
| 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] |