KKG-11, Gomyo: Gelasian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Philyra platychira (De Haan 1841)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Mursia sp. Leach 1823
sp. 2
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Charybdis sp. De Haan 1833
sp. 2
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shizuoka County:Kakegawa
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 138.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 137.4° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kakegawa Formation:Dainichi Member:Dainichi Sand
Stratigraphy comments: The Dainichi Formation is in the uppermost part of the CN12 nannofossil zone (N21 planktonic foram Blow zone), according to Tomida et al. (2006). Formerly assigned to the Late Pliocene, but should be assigned to the Gelasian (circa 2.0 Ma) after revision of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: shell beds
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:202451
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod
Created:2019-07-11 13:18:28 Last modified:2026-02-07 17:14:51
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 13:18:28
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]