Kikai Island, 19HQ4A: Middle Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
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Scleractinia indet.
Bourne 1900
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Pachyseris speciosa
(Dana 1846)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Pocilloporidae
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Stylocoeniella guentheri
(Bassett-Smith 1890)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Lobophylliidae
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Echinophyllia sp.
Klunzinger 1879
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Echinophyllia echinata
(Saville Kent 1871)
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Pectiniidae indet.
Vaughan and Wells 1943
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Faviidae indet.
Gregory 1900
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 28.3° North, 130.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 610 Ka (ESR) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ryukyu | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ESR age of 0.61 Ma | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: rhodolith limestone, size of sample quadrat: 1.5 m² | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
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 3934 | ||
| Database number: | 88042 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-31 01:18:14 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-03-31 01:18:14 |
| 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] |