Core CR 14, offshore Irabu Island: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck 1816)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favia pallida (Dana 1846)
Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylocoeniella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1935
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 24.7° North, 125.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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: 30 to 22 Ka (U/Th)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ryukyu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: mounded structure in unit 2, 8-24.4 mbsf, 30-22 ka (Th/U)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: framestone
Secondary lithology: rudstone
Lithology description: coral-algal framestone/bindstone, rudstone, grainstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:glacial
Geology comments: small-scaled coral reef at a water depth of ~126 m formed during the lowstand stage of MIS 3-2
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3962
Database number:89236
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-11 04:47:08 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-11 04:47:08
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

29932. K. Sasaki, A. Omura, T. Miwa, Y. Tsuji, H. Matsuda, T. Nakamori, Y. Iryu, T. Yamada, Y. Sato and H. Nakagawa. 2006. 230Th/234U and 14C dating of a lowstand coral reef beneath the insular shelf off Irabu Island, Ryukyus, southwestern Japan. Island Arc 15:455-467 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/O. Alfaro]