N Kikai Island, detrital limestone: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Lithophyllon sp. Rehberg 1892
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Cynarina lacrymalis (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
Echinophyllia sp. Klunzinger 1879
Echinophyllia echinata (Saville Kent 1871)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830
Montipora danae Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Montipora venosa (Ehrenberg 1834)
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830
Acropora palifera (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Montastrea valenciennesii (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
[entered as Montastrea valenciennesi]
Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal 1775)
Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forskal 1775)
Hydnophora exesa (Pallas 1766)
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Goniastrea favulus (Dana 1846)
Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg 1834)
Platygyra pini Chevalier 1975
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi (Audouin 1826)
Favia favus (Forskal 1775)
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: OIS 3-4
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: coarse-grained detrital limestones with allochthonous corals and some autochthonous corals
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:88596
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-16 03:45:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-04-16 03:45:13
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]