Takasakiyama Beach: Rupelian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Nagasaki County:Kitamatsura
Coordinates: 33.2° North, 129.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 126.5° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Rupelian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Rupelian
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 27.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kishima Formation:Hakai Member:Nagashima
Stratigraphy comments: early Oligocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:KSM-1
Database number:202439
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-07-11 11:49:17 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 11:49:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

41705.decapod H. Karasawa. 1993. Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (20)1-92 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]

Secondary references:

70369 H. Karasawa and Y. Fudouji. 2000. Palaeogene decapod Crustacea from the Kishima and Okinoshima Groups, Jyushu, Japan. Paleontological Research 4(4):239-253 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]