Chinen Village: Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Potamidae
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Geothelphusa tenuimanus
(Miyake and Minei 1965)
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ryuku |
| Coordinates: | 26.2° North, 127.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Association with fossil deer that are now extinct on Okinawa |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 224384 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Wolfe | Enterer: | J. Wolfe |
| Created: | 2022-02-25 13:35:20 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-02-25 13:35:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 80180. | T. Naruse, H. Karasawa, S. Shokita, T. Tanaka, and M. Moriguchi. 2003. A First Fossil Record of the Terrestrial Crab, Geothelphusa tenuimanus (Miyake & Minei, 1965) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from Okinawa Island, Central Ryukyus, Japan. Crustaceana 76(10):1211-1218 [J. Wolfe/J. Wolfe] |