Kikai-jima, Shidooke reef: Site 1, Corymbose and tabular Acropora facies: Holocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Favia stelligera
(Dana 1846)
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recombined as Goniastrea stelligera | |||||||
Goniastrea retiformis
(Lamarck 1816)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Acropora digitifera
(Dana 1846)
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Acropora robusta
(Dana 1846)
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Acropora hyacinthus
(Dana 1846)
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Isopora palifera
(Lamarck 1816)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 28.4° North, 130.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 28.4° North, 130.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 7290 to 3270 YBP (14C (calibrated)) |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Surface of Holocene section (Terrace II)/ 7290-3270 years ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "reef rocks" |
Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 165205 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2015-01-15 02:35:36 | Last modified: | 2015-01-15 03:58:33 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2015-04-15 02:35:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
54026. | C. Hongo. 2012. Holocene key coral species in the Northwest Pacific: indicators of reef formation and reef ecosystem responses to global climate change and anthropogenic stresses in the near future. Quaternary Science Reviews 35:82-99 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |