YEZ-9, Kiritachi (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Japan (44.2° N, 142.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.3° N, 136.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inoceramus amakusensis inoceramid zone, Yezo Group, Santonian (85.7 - 83.6 Ma)

• Pebble nodule from the upper Yezo Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mizuno

Primary reference: H. Collins, Y. Kanie, and H. Karasawa. 1993. Late Cretaceous crabs from Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 172:292-310 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185010: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Retroplumidae
Archaeopus ezoensis Nagao 1941 crab