Gushikawa, Okinawa Island, GQ1: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
5 specimens
massive Porites
14 specimens
encrusting/platy Porites
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sinensis (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
1 specimen
Favites ex gr. abdita (Ellis and Solander 1786)
1 specimen
Montastrea valenciennesii (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
1 specimen
[entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
2 specimens
Oulophyllia bennettae (Veron and Pichon 1977)
1 specimen
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Symphyllia recta (Dana 1846)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acroporidae indet. Verrill 1902
1 specimen
Acropora ? crateriformis (Gardiner 1898)
1 specimen
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
11 specimens
Acropora monticulosa (Brüggemann 1879)
4 specimens
2 specimens
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
9 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
3 specimens
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Alcyonacea
Tubipora musica Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 26.1° North, 127.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu Formation:Naha
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0.41-0.85 Ma based on nannofossils
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 10.6 m²
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: shallow upper reef slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:corals only
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3933
Database number:87998
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-30 06:14:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

29542. M. Humblet, Y. Iryu, and T. Nakamori. 2009. Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Marine Geology 259:1-20 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]