YEZ-17, Ponbetsuzawa, Mikasa City (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (43.3° N, 142.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 134.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inoceramus teshioensis inoceramid zone, Yezo Group, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Basal part of the Upper Yezo Group (Upper Turonian; Inoceramus teshioensis Zone by Ando and Kodama (1998))

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• The deposition environment is considered a small euxinic basin bordered by shallow lagoons and by the tidal flats of the carbonate platform

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Matsuda

• Repository: Mikasa City Museum (MCM)

Primary reference: H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa. 2000. Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan-Part 1. Nephropidae, Micheleidae and Galatheidae. Paleontological Research 4(2):139-145 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127345: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 10.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia kamuy
Hoploparia kamuy Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000 clawed lobster