Solitary coral
Heterocyathus japonicus (Verrill)
Semata, Ichihara city, Chiba pref., Japan
Late Pleistocene, Quaternary, Cenozoic (0.3 Ma)
Classification
Phylum Cnidaria, Class Anthozoa, Subclass Hexacorallia, Order Scleractinia, Family Caryophylliidae, Genus Heterocyathus
![Solitary coral](coralSEMATA1.jpg)
Length: 10 mm. Solitary coral fossils covering snails. The right snail was totaly covered with a solitary coral. Two rock barnacles were over the left coral. Recovered from the sand bed of Late Pleistocene Yabu Formation, Shimosa Group formed under the marine environment of the Paleo-Tokyo Bay.
Other localities
- Branched coral (Kamogawa, Chiba pref.)
- Solitary coral covering a snail (Semata, Chiba pref.)
- Solitary coral (Semata, Chiba pref.)
- Coral (Hikawa, Tokyo)