Corals D, southwest Ryukyu Islands, Pacific Ocean: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Pectinia sp. Oken 1815
Mycedium sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Oxypora sp. Saville-Kent 1871
Echinophyllia sp. Klunzinger 1879
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 25.0° North, 125.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu
Regional order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Stratigraphy comments: Ryukyu Group is 45.4-111.1 m thick and ranges in age from 1.5 to 0.3 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: 20-30 m
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: middle reef slope
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3812
Database number:81581
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Girndt
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-30 06:51:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27510. N. Sagawa, T. Nakamori, and Y. Iryu. 2001. Pleistocene reef development in the southwest Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 175:303-323 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/A. Girndt]