YEZ-16, Oyubari, Yubari City: Early Santonian, Japan
collected by N. Nikkawa

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 142.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.3° North, 136.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Santonian Inoceramid zone:  Inoceramus amakusensis
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Yezo Group (Lower Santonian; Inoceramus amakusensis Zone by Ando and Kodama (1998)).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:N. Nikkawa
Collection method comments: Repository: Mikasa City Museum (MCM)
Metadata
Database number:145765
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:E. Johnson
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2013-06-11 06:10:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-06-11 06:10:07
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]