Yomitan, Naha Fm, Okinawa (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.4° N, 127.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Naha Formation (Ryukyu Group), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Many pages of description and stratigraphy in paper. "coral limestone"

Collection methods: field sketches / photographs.

Primary reference: T. Nakamori. 1986. Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Tohoku University Science Reports, Second Series, Geology 56(2):71-133 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62797: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Based on figure 49, example of community E.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Echinopora mammiformis Nemenzo 1959 stony coral
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