Ryukyu Limestone Formation
81 distinct taxa, from 93 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 2.6–0.0 Mya.
Ryukyu, Ryukyu Islands · JP
81 taxa · 93 fossils · 2.6–0.0 MyaFiled under the Sakishima Group.
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4 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Glycymeris
- Cerithium (Contumax)
- Turbo (Marmarostoma)
- Cypraea
- Fungia
- Porites
- Terebra
- Trochus
- Acar plicata
- Acropora
- Amusium
- Annachlamys flabellatus
- Antigona (Ventricola)
- Barbatia
- Calcar
- Cantharus (Pollia) fumosus
- Cardita variegata
- Casmaria erincaeus
- Cassis cornuta
- Caulastrea furcata
- Cerithium
- Cerithium echinatum
- Chama
- Chicoreus
- Chlamys
- Conus
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus
- Conus ebraeus
- Conus generalis
- Conus lividus
- Conus magus
- Conus marmoreus
- Conus tulipa
- Coralliophila
- Cryptopecten vesiculosus
- Cymatium
- Cyphastrea
- Decatopecten plica
- Diploastrea heliopora
- Dipsastraea pallida
The 40 most often recorded, of 81.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.