Where: Japan (24.1° N, 123.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 123.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• oxygen isotope stage 7

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Omura. 1984. Uranium-series age of the Riukiu Limestone on Hateruma Island, southwestern Ryukyus. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 135:415-426 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127189: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.05.2012