Kogashira: Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kagoshima
Coordinates: 31.6° North, 130.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.1° North, 136.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Formation:Kogashira
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive,gray,green 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
Database number:234385
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2024-04-10 14:16:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2024-04-10 14:16:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

88619. T. Yamaguchi. 1980. A new species belonging to the Balanus amphitrite Darwin Group (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) from the Late Pleistocene of Japan; An example of peripheral speciation. Journal of Paleontology 54(5):1084-1101 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/M. Clapham]