MYZ-4, Akatani Cliff: Messinian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Karasawa and Kato 1996
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Carcinoplax prisca Imaizumi 1961
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus aff. trigonus (von Siebold 1824)
"Linuparus puncticulosus" (nomen nudum) in table
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Miyazaki County:Higashimorogata
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 130.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miyazaki Formation:Higashimorogata Member:Aya
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Assigned to Zones N17b-18 (latest Miocene-earliest Pliocene) of Blow's scale of planktonic foraminifera (Suzuki 1987)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:202445
Authorizer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2019-07-11 12:29:25 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 12:29:25
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:

41694decapod H. Karasawa and H. Kato. 1996. Daldorfia Rathbun, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Neogene of Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109(1):44-52 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]