N Kikai Island, reef rocks: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Oulophyllia crispa (Lamarck 1816)
Caulastrea tumida Matthai 1928
Echinopora sp. Lamarck 1816
Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg 1834)
Favia pallida (Dana 1846)
Favia speciosa (Dana 1846)
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck 1816)
Goniastrea aspera Verrill 1866
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
Pectinia sp. Oken 1815
Montastrea curta (Dana 1846)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830
tabular
Acropora monticulosa/digitifera
branching
Acropora florida/danai/robusta
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Cycloseris costulata (Ortmann 1889)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Lobophyllia hemprichii (Ehrenberg 1834)
Acanthastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck 1816)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 28.3° North, 130.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 66 to 52 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 5 reef complexes: ~66, ~64, ~62, ~55 and ~52 ka, OIS 3-4
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "reef rocks"
Lithology description: coral framestone, coral bindstone/bafflestone, coral and rhodolith floatstone/bindstone, coral framestone/floatstone, coral floatstone/rudstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: reef crest to lower reef slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3941
Database number:88595
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-16 02:16:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-04-16 02:16:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29722. K. Sasaki, A. Omura, K. Murakami, N. Sagawa, and T. Nakamori. 2004. Interstadial coral reef terraces and relative sea-level changes during marine oxygen isotope stages 3-4, Kikai Island, central Ryukyus, Japan. Quaternary International 120:51-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]