Gushikawa, Okinawa Island, GQ2 (Pleistocene to of Japan)

Also known as Reef 3933

Where: Japan (26.1° N, 127.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 127.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• reef edge to shallow upper reef slope
• coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 4.7 m²

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 88000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• corals only
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Acanthastrea ex gr. echinata Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Montastrea valenciennesii" = Favites valenciennesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
[entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
Favites ? complanata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
Platygyra sinensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Platygyra ex gr. daedalea Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Favia ex gr. pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites "sp. 1" Link 1807 stony coral
massive Porites
Porites "sp. 2" Link 1807 stony coral
encrusting/platy Porites
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora ? pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acroporidae indet. Verrill 1902 stony coral
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus Dana 1846 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral