Maja 3: Early Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Carcinoplax prisca Imaizumi 1961
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 26.3° North, 123.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.4° North, 123.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shimajiri Formation:Maja
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy siltstone
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:SMJ-3
Database number:202479
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-07-11 14:44:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-11 14:44:30
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]