Chuo-Morioka quarries, Okinawa Island, 1YOMQ2: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
8 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
16 specimens
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
5 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia sp. Blainville 1830
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussidae indet. Ortmann 1890
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900
8 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
7 specimens
massive Porites
3 specimens
encrusting/platy Porites
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
2 specimens
1 specimen
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975
1 specimen
Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg 1834)
1 specimen
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
3 specimens
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
1 specimen
Favites pentagona (Esper 1794)
1 specimen
Favites flexuosa (Dana 1846)
1 specimen
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 26.4° North, 127.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 Formation:Sobe
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unit 4 of Odawara 2005; 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 8.8 m²
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: upper reef slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:corals only
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3932
Database number:87893
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-27 08:08:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-27 08:08:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29542. M. Humblet, Y. Iryu, and T. Nakamori. 2009. Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Marine Geology 259:1-20 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]