Nakamura: Late Pliocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shizuoka County:Kakegawa
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 138.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 138.3° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kakegawa Formation:Ten-no
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
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:KKG-8
Database number:202454
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:decapod
Created:2019-07-11 13:28:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 13:28:39
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]