Saki-shima Islands raised beach deposits: Pleistocene - Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Fungia cf. granulosa Klunzinger 1879
Fungia cf. paumotensis Stutchbury 1833
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona sp. Lamarck 1801
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
    = Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775
Kiessling 2009
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora spp. Oken 1815
Acropora hebes (Dana 1846)
Acropora cf. haimei (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860)
Acropora cf. muricata (Linnaeus 1758)
Montipora cf. ramosa Bernard 1897
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Maeandra daedalea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
Orbicella spp. Dana 1846
Favia speciosa (Dana 1846)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea fascicularis (Linnaeus 1767)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 24.5° North, 124.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene - Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:63136
Authorizer:M. Kosnik, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Kosnik, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-06 23:23:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-06 23:23:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
9353. H. Yabe and T. Sugiyama. 1935. Geological and geographical distribution of reef-corals in Japan. Journal of Paleontology 9:183-217 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

9159 W. Kiessling. 2003. Personal data. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
30388 W. Kiessling. 2009. Taxonomic vetting of messy data in the Paleobiology Database. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]