Kikai-jima, Shidooke reef: Site 4, Corymbose and tabular Acropora facies (Holocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (28.3° N, 130.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Surface of Holocene section (Terrace II) 7290-3270 years ago

•Surface of Holocene section (Terrace III) 5550-2320 years ago

•Surface of Holocene section (Terrace IV) 4650-770 years ago

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165209: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona minuta Wells 1954 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora robusta Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora digitifera Dana 1846 stony coral
Acropora gemmifera Brook 1892 stony coral
Isopora palifera Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cyphastrea chalcidicum Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea retiformis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
"Favia stelligera" = Goniastrea stelligera Dana 1846 stony coral
"Montastrea curta" = Astrea curta Dana 1846 stony coral
Platygyra sinensis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 stony coral
Favites chinensis Verrill 1866 stony coral