Jizodo: Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiacyathidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys japonicum Yabe and Eguchi 1932
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia cf. japonica Marenzeller 1888
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Chiba
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 140.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 139.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 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:92647
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-23 05:03:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-23 05:03:59
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]