Kikai-jima, Shidooke reef: Site 4, Corymbose and tabular Acropora facies: Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favia stelligera (Dana 1846)
Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck 1816)
Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forskal 1775)
Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe and Sugiyama 1935
Platygyra sinensis (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
Favites chinensis (Verrill 1866)
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Isopora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
Acropora gemmifera (Brook 1892)
Acropora robusta (Dana 1846)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona minuta Wells 1954
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 28.3° North, 130.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 7290 to 770 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Surface of Holocene section (Terrace II) 7290-3270 years ago
Surface of Holocene section (Terrace III) 5550-2320 years ago
Surface of Holocene section (Terrace IV) 4650-770 years ago
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:165209
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-15 02:53:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-15 02:53:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
54026. C. Hongo. 2012. Holocene key coral species in the Northwest Paciļ¬c: indicators of reef formation and reef ecosystem responses to global climate change and anthropogenic stresses in the near future. Quaternary Science Reviews 35:82-99 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]