Okuda: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Laomediidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Varunidae
Miosesarma japonicum (Karasawa 1989)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shimane County:Masuda
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 131.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° North, 129.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Masuda Formation:Toyoda
Stratigraphy comments: early middle Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
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:MSD-1
Database number:202462
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-07-11 13:53:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 13:53:23
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]