Iwaya Cliff: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Epialtidae
Hyastenus sp. White 1847
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Homolodromiidae
Dicranodromia sp. Milne-Edwards 1880
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Aichi County:Minamichita-cho
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 136.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 134.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Morozaki Formation:Yamami
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous sandstone
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:MRZ06
Database number:219247
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-02 15:16:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-02 15:16:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

76195. H. Karasawa, Y. Mizuno, K. Hachiya and Y. Ando. 2017. Reappraisal of anomuran and brachyuran decapods from the lower Miocene Morozaki Group, Japan, collected by the Tokai Fossil Society. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 43:47-69 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]