Zukawa: Early Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Macrophthalmidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Toyama | County: | Takaoka |
| Coordinates: | 35.8° North, 137.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 136.6° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Zukawa |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Calcareous 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: | ZKW-1 | ||
| Database number: | 202459 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-07-11 13:42:38 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-07-11 13:42:38 |
| 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] |