Ogasa-gun: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard 1833)
Flabellum distinctum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Heterocyathus japonicus (Verrill 1866)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shizuoka
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 138.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 137.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92644
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-23 02:49:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-23 02:49:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31200. H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1942. Fossil and recent simple corals from Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Geology 22(2):105-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]