Also known as Reef 3932

Where: Japan (26.4° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 127.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sobe Formation (Ryukyu Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• unit 4 of Odawara 2005; 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87898: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.03.2009