Totsuka: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kanagawa
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 139.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shimosueyoshi
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray siltstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:102983
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-21 05:49:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-21 05:49:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

88619. T. Yamaguchi. 1980. A new species belonging to the Balanus amphitrite Darwin Group (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) from the Late Pleistocene of Japan; An example of peripheral speciation. Journal of Paleontology 54(5):1084-1101 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/M. Clapham]