N Kikai Island, detrital limestone (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (28.3° N, 130.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 130.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• OIS 3-4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• coarse-grained detrital limestones with allochthonous corals and some autochthonous corals

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Sasaki, A. Omura, K. Murakami, N. Sagawa, and T. Nakamori. 2004. Interstadial coral reef terraces and relative sea-level changes during marine oxygen isotope stages 3-4, Kikai Island, central Ryukyus, Japan. Quaternary International 120:51-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Cynarina lacrymalis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Echinophyllia sp. Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Echinophyllia echinata Saville Kent 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Acropora palifera" = Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Montipora venosa Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Montipora danae Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Lithophyllon sp. Rehberg 1892 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Montastrea valenciennesii" = Favites valenciennesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
[entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
Cyphastrea chalcidicum Forskal 1775 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi Audouin 1826 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea pectinata Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Goniastrea favulus Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia maritima stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pectiniidae
"Echinophyllia nishihirai" = Echinomorpha nishihirai
"Echinophyllia nishihirai" = Echinomorpha nishihirai Veron 1990 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral