YEZ-20, Wakkauenbetsugawa, Nakagawa-cho: Santonian, Japan
collected by T. Kojima

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 142.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.7° North, 136.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Santonian
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Yezo Formation:Nigorikawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Nigorikawa Formation (Santonian), Upper Yezo Group (Osanai et al, 1960).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:T. Kojima
Collection method comments: Repository: Mizunami Fossil Museum (MFM)
Metadata
Database number:222228
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2021-09-19 14:13:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-09-19 14:13:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

47152.decapod H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa. 2000. Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan-Part 1. Nephropidae, Micheleidae and Galatheidae. Paleontological Research 4(2):139-145 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]