Kikai Island, 12HQ: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
11 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815
2 specimens
Turbinaria ? stellulata (Lamarck 1816)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
1 specimen
listed as Gardinoseris planulata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Leptastreidae
Leptastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
3 specimens
Leptastrea aff. bewickensis Veron and Pichon 1977
1 specimen
4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Symphyllia recta (Dana 1846)
1 specimen
Acanthastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
4 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
Lobophyllia corymbosa (Forskal 1775)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900
15 specimens
Favia sp. Oken 1815
6 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
1 specimen
Pavona bipartita Nemenzo 1980
1 specimen
Leptoseris ex gr. yabei (Pillai and Scheer 1976)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Pachyseris rugosa (Lamarck 1801)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
2 specimens
massive Porites
13 specimens
encrusting/platy Porites
3 specimens
Porites/Montipora
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
3 specimens
Platygyra ex gr. daedalea (Ellis and Solander 1786)
1 specimen
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975
2 specimens
Platygyra sinensis (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
2 specimens
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
3 specimens
Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forskal 1775)
1 specimen
Favites ex gr. abdita (Ellis and Solander 1786)
1 specimen
Favites pentagona (Esper 1794)
2 specimens
Leptoria phrygia (Ellis and Solander 1786)
1 specimen
13 specimens
Montastrea ex gr. annuligera (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
2 specimens
see common names

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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 19.2 m²
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: 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 3934
Database number:88044
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-31 02:01:42 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]