YEZ-1, Kitazawa: Santonian, Japan
collected by Mizuno

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.9° North, 142.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.1° North, 148.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Santonian
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pebble nodule from U3 Formation of the upper Yezo Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mizuno
Metadata
Database number:127691
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:E. Johnson
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-22 03:07:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-05-22 03:07:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

41704.decapod H. Collins, Y. Kanie, and H. Karasawa. 1993. Late Cretaceous crabs from Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 172:292-310 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]