Where: Japan (43.3° N, 142.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.5° N, 136.7° 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 lower part of the Upper Yezo Group
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kera
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 185012: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.04.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Notopocorystes (Notopocorystes) japonicus" = Joeranina japonica
"Notopocorystes (Notopocorystes) japonicus" = Joeranina japonica Jimbo 1894 crab | |
Diaulax yokoii Collins et al. 1993 crab |