Corals B, southwest Ryukyu Islands, Pacific Ocean: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora hyacinthus
(Dana 1846)
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Acropora monticulosa
(Brüggemann 1879)
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Acropora danai
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860)
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| synonym of Acropora abrotanoides | |||||||
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Acropora palifera
(Lamarck 1816)
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| recombined as Isopora palifera | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Pocillopora verrucosa
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites lutea
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Goniastrea retiformis
(Lamarck 1816)
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 25.0° North, 125.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.1° North, 124.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ryukyu | ||||
| Regional order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ryukyu Group is 45.4-111.1 m thick and ranges in age from 1.5 to 0.3 Ma | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: 0-5 metre | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: reef crest to upper slope | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3812 | ||
| Database number: | 81578 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | A. Girndt |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-06-30 06:42:33 | Last modified: | 2008-10-14 14:12:57 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27510. | N. Sagawa, T. Nakamori, and Y. Iryu. 2001. Pleistocene reef development in the southwest Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 175:303-323 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/A. Girndt] |