Tateyama, Numa Beds (Holocene of Japan)

Where: Chiba, Japan (35.0° N, 139.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 139.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Numa Formation, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• dating of shells and wood (Hoshino 1967, Konishi 1967)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. N. Veron. 1992. Environmental control of Holocene changes to the world's most northern hermatypic coral outcrop. Pacific Science 46(4):405-425 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97528: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Barabattoia amicorum" = Dipsastraea amicorum Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
"Favia speciosa" = Dipsastraea speciosa Dana 1846 stony coral
"Favia favus" = Dipsastraea favus Forskal 1775 stony coral
"Favia laxa" = Dipsastraea laxa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
Leptoria phrygia Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Physophyllia ayleni" = Pectinia ayleni Wells 1935 stony coral
Pectinia lactuca Pallas 1766 stony coral
Cyphastrea japonica Yabe and Sugiyama 1932 stony coral
Cyphastrea microphthalma Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Cyphastrea chalcidicum Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Favites flexuosa Dana 1846 stony coral
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra contorta Veron 1990 stony coral
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975 stony coral
Caulastrea tumida Matthai 1928 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Lithophyllon undulatum Rehberg 1892 stony coral
Cycloseris patelliformis Boschma 1923 stony coral
Cycloseris cyclolites Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
"Psammocora profundacella" = Psammocora profundacella, "Psammocora superficialis" = Psammocora profundacella, "Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna
"Psammocora profundacella" = Psammocora profundacella Gardiner 1898 stony coral
"Psammocora superficialis" = Psammocora profundacella Gardiner 1898 stony coral
"Coscinaraea columna" = Psammocora columna Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona decussata Dana 1846 stony coral
Pavona varians Verrill 1864 stony coral
Pavona frondifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Leptoseris mycetoseroides Wells 1954 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora polyformis Zou 1980 stony coral
Goniopora lobata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Porites heronensis Veron 1985 stony coral
Porites rus Forskal 1775 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Echinophyllia echinata Saville Kent 1871 stony coral
Echinophyllia aspera Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Oxypora lacera Verrill 1864 stony coral
Cynarina lacrymalis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Acanthastrea hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Acanthastrea echinata Dana 1846 stony coral
Acanthastrea lordhowensis Veron and Pichon 1982 stony coral
Lobophyllia hataii Yabe et al. 1936 stony coral
Lobophyllia robusta Yabe and Sugiyama 1936 stony coral
Lobophyllia hemprichii Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora japonica Eguchi 1968 stony coral
Acropora tumida Verrill 1866 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylocoeniella guentheri Bassett-Smith 1890 stony coral
Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oulastreidae
Oulastrea crispata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria mesenterina Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Turbinaria reniformis Bernard 1896 stony coral
Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral
"Turbinaria peltata" = Duncanopsammia peltata Esper 1794 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Euphyllia ancora" = Fimbriaphyllia ancora
"Euphyllia ancora" = Fimbriaphyllia ancora Veron and Pichon 1979 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea purpurea Dana 1846 stony coral