YEZ-17, Ponbetsuzawa, Mikasa City: Late Turonian, Japan
collected by S. Matsuda

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 142.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Turonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Late Turonian Inoceramid zone:  Inoceramus teshioensis
Age range of interval: 93.9 - 89.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo
Stratigraphy comments: Basal part of the Upper Yezo Group (Upper Turonian; Inoceramus teshioensis Zone by Ando and Kodama (1998))
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: The deposition environment is considered a small euxinic basin bordered by shallow lagoons and by the tidal flats of the carbonate platform
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Matsuda
Collection method comments: Repository: Mikasa City Museum (MCM)
Metadata
Database number:127345
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:E. Johnson
Modifier:J. Fearon Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-10 02:10:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-05-10 02:10:30
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47152.decapod 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]