Kikai Island, Kamikatetsu, fore-reef (Pleistocene of Japan)
Also known as Reef 3941
Where: Japan (28.3° N, 130.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 129.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ryukyu Group, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Th/U age: 82,000 +/- 2,000
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; grainstone
• fore-reef sediments, water depth 120 m or less
• moderately sorted, unconsolidated to weakly cemented, and grain-supported limestone with foraminifers, brachiopods, bryozoans, molluscs, echinoids, solitary corals and fragmental calcareous algae, and very rare hermatypic corals and coralline algae in growth position
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1942. Fossil and recent simple corals from Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Geology 22(2):105-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92589: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• corals only
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| Anthozoa | |
"Bathyactis kikaiensis" = Fungiacyathus fragilis, "Bathyactis symmetrica" = Fungiacyathus symmetricus
"Bathyactis kikaiensis" = Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars 1872 stony coral
"Bathyactis symmetrica" = Fungiacyathus symmetricus Pourtales 1871 stony coral | |
"Stephanophyllia (Letepsammia) formosissima" = Letepsammia formosissima, "Stephanophyllia (Letepsammia) japonica" = Letepsammia formosissima, Stephanophyllia fungulus
"Stephanophyllia (Letepsammia) formosissima" = Letepsammia formosissima Moseley 1876 stony coral
"Stephanophyllia (Letepsammia) japonica" = Letepsammia formosissima Moseley 1876 stony coral
Stephanophyllia fungulus Alcock 1902 stony coral | |
Trochocyathus hanzawai, Heterocyathus aequicostatus, "Citharocyathus conicus" = Notocyathus conicus, "Goniocyathus pacificus" = Dasmosmilia lymani, Ceratotrochus (Conotrochus) elongatus, Caryophyllia paucipaliata, "Premocyathus compressus" = Caryophyllia (Premocyathus) compressa
Trochocyathus hanzawai Yabe and Eguchi 1932 stony coral
Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Citharocyathus conicus" = Notocyathus conicus Alcock 1902 stony coral
"Goniocyathus pacificus" = Dasmosmilia lymani Pourtales 1871 stony coral
Ceratotrochus (Conotrochus) elongatus Yabe and Eguchi 1942 stony coral
Caryophyllia paucipaliata Yabe and Eguchi 1932 stony coral
"Premocyathus compressus" = Caryophyllia (Premocyathus) compressa Yabe and Eguchi 1942 stony coral | |
"Peponocyathus orientalis" = Peponocyathus orientalis, "Deltocyathus orientalis" = Peponocyathus orientalis, "Trochocyathus pileus" = Cyathotrochus pileus, Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) lessoni
"Peponocyathus orientalis" = Peponocyathus orientalis Duncan 1876 stony coral
"Deltocyathus orientalis" = Peponocyathus orientalis Duncan 1876 stony coral
"Trochocyathus pileus" = Cyathotrochus pileus Alcock 1902 stony coral
Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) lessoni Michelin 1842 stony coral | |
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum, Flabellum transversale, "Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum
"Flabellum rubrum" = Monomyces rubrum Quoy and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
Flabellum transversale Moseley 1881 stony coral
"Flabellum distinctum" = Flabellum pavoninum Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
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Anthemiphyllia dentata Alcock 1902 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia fistula, Balanophyllia sp., Balanophyllia cf. imperialis, Balanophyllia cf. cumingii, "Endopachys japonicum" = Endopachys grayi, "Heteropsammia ovalis" = Heteropsammia cochlea
Balanophyllia fistula stony coral
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral
Balanophyllia cf. imperialis Kent 1871 stony coral
Balanophyllia cf. cumingii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Endopachys japonicum" = Endopachys grayi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |