Core CR 14, offshore Irabu Island (Pleistocene of Japan)

Also known as Reef 3962

Where: Japan (24.7° N, 125.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 125.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ryukyu Group, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• mounded structure in unit 2, 8-24.4 mbsf, 30-22 ka (Th/U)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and rudstone

• small-scaled coral reef at a water depth of ~126 m formed during the lowstand stage of MIS 3-2
• coral-algal framestone/bindstone, rudstone, grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: K. Sasaki, A. Omura, T. Miwa, Y. Tsuji, H. Matsuda, T. Nakamori, Y. Iryu, T. Yamada, Y. Sato and H. Nakagawa. 2006. 230Th/234U and 14C dating of a lowstand coral reef beneath the insular shelf off Irabu Island, Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Island Arc 15:455-467 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89236: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Seriatopora sp., Stylocoeniella sp.
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylocoeniella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp., Cyphastrea sp., "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp.
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral