Daito Formation, Unit 3: Early Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Echinoidea
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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unclassified
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Foraminifera indet.
Eichwald 1830
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Corallinophycidae
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Corallinaceae indet.
Lamouroux 1816
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 131.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Daito | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 1.6-2.0 Ma | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | packstone |
| Secondary lithology: | framestone |
| Lithology description: bioclastic packstone accompanied by framestone, most of the bioclasts, have been dissolved to leave a moldic porosity, which gives the packstone a mud-like appearance | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3808 | ||
| Database number: | 81068 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-06-02 05:21:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-06-02 05:21:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27278. | Y. Suzuki, Y. Iryu, A. Nambu, S. Inagaki, and S. Ozawa. 2007. Plio-Pleistocene reef evolution of Kita-daito-jima, Japan. In B. Hubmann, W. E. Piller (eds.), Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommission 17:493-506 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/P. Wagner] |