Takigawa Fm - Takigawa - Kikai-jima (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (28.3° N, 129.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 129.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• 120-130 kyr

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62791: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 27.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Based on plates in paper... they have sp. level id, not 100% confident on matching to collection localities (different naming scheme used).
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Cladocora ? kabiraensis" = Galaxea fascicularis
"Cladocora ? kabiraensis" = Galaxea fascicularis Linnaeus 1767 stony coral
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