Kikai Island, 39HQ: 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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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Oulophyllia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Goniastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Favia ex gr. pallida
(Dana 1846)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Favia ex gr. laxa
(Klunzinger 1879)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cyphastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cyphastrea serailia
(Forskal 1775)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Platygyra ex gr. daedalea
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Platygyra contorta
Veron 1990
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Favites sp.
Link 1807
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Favites flexuosa
(Dana 1846)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Favites chinensis
(Verrill 1866)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Favites ex gr. abdita
(Ellis and Solander 1786)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Faviidae indet.
Gregory 1900
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Favia sp.
Oken 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Montastrea ? colemani
Veron 2000
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora palifera
(Lamarck 1816)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Acropora ex gr. microphthalma
(Verrill 1869)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| [entered as Acropora microphtalma] | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Agariciidae indet.
Gray 1847
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Pavona ? minuta
Wells 1954
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Pachyseris rugosa
(Lamarck 1801)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| massive Porites | ||||||||||
| 4 specimens | ||||||||||
| encrusting/platy Porites | ||||||||||
| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| Porites/Montipora | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Lobophylliidae
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Lobophyllia hemprichii
(Ehrenberg 1834)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Acanthastrea sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Turbinaria ? stellulata
(Lamarck 1816)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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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 |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ryukyu |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: coral limestone, size of sample quadrat: 3.7 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: | 88054 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-31 04:16:54 | 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] |