Chuo-Morioka quarries, Okinawa Island, 5YOMQ2: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
|
||||||||||
|
Scleractinia indet.
Bourne 1900
|
25 specimens | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
|
||||||||||
|
Merulina sp.
Ehrenberg 1834
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Favites flexuosa
(Dana 1846)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Favites ex gr. abdita
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Cyphastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
|
9 specimens | |||||||||
|
Favia ex gr. laxa
(Klunzinger 1879)
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Dipsastraea laxa | ||||||||||
|
Platygyra sp.
Ehrenberg 1834
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Platygyra ex gr. daedalea
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Goniastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
|
Goniastrea favulus
(Dana 1846)
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
|
||||||||||
|
Faviidae indet.
Gregory 1900
|
10 specimens | |||||||||
|
Favia sp.
Oken 1815
|
6 specimens | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Fungiidae
|
||||||||||
|
Fungiidae indet.
Dana 1846
|
3 specimens | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
|
||||||||||
|
Leptoseris sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Pavona ex gr. clavus
Dana 1846
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Pavona varians
Verrill 1864
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
|
||||||||||
|
Porites informal sp. 1
Link 1807
|
8 specimens | |||||||||
| massive Porites | ||||||||||
|
Porites informal sp. 2
Link 1807
|
18 specimens | |||||||||
| encrusting/platy Porites | ||||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
|
||||||||||
|
Montipora sp.
Blainville 1830
|
3 specimens | |||||||||
|
Acropora ex gr. hyacinthus
(Dana 1846)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Acropora ex gr. humilis
(Dana 1846)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Astreopora sp.
Blainville 1830
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Lobophylliidae
|
||||||||||
|
Echinophyllia sp.
Klunzinger 1879
|
2 specimens | |||||||||
|
Cynarina lacrymalis
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Acanthastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Acanthastrea ex gr. echinata
(Dana 1846)
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Lobophyllia sp.
Blainville 1830
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 26.4° North, 127.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.5° North, 127.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 4.7 m² | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: upper reef slope | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:corals only | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3932 | ||
| Database number: | 87981 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-30 02:10:00 | Last modified: | 2009-04-20 03:39:47 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29542. | 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] |