Takamatsu, Akabane-cho: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callichiridae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Leucosia haematosticta Adams and White 1848
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Yamaguchi 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Aichi
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 137.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Atsumi Formation:Toyohashi Member:Takamatsu Silty Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Takamatsu Silty Sandstone, Toyohashi Formation, Atsumi Group (Middle Pleistocene, 0.44 ± 0.18 Ma by ESR-dating, Shimamoto et al., 1994)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified silty sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Toyohashi Museum of Natural History
Metadata
Database number:127686
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Uhen Enterer:E. Johnson, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-22 01:44:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-05-22 01:44:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

41698.decapod H. Karasawa and T. Goda. 1996. Two species of decapod crustaceans from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan. Science Report of the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History 6:1-4 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

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]