Takanasaki Fm, Hateruma-jima, loc no. H1: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia scutaria Lamarck 1801
pl 24
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Leptoseris yabei (Pillai and Scheer 1976)
pl 24
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea valenciennesii (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
pl 25 [entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg 1834)
pl 25
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 24.0° North, 123.8° 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
Age estimate: 130 Ka (other)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu Formation:Takanasaki
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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.
Metadata
Database number:62794
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-27 18:00:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-27 18:00:45
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]