New Fossil Record of the GenusBathynomus(Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the Middle and Upper Miocene of Central Japan, with Description of a New Supergiant Species

AbstractGenus Neosinocythere is described from the upper Miocene Itahana Formation in Central Japan, documenting the first record from Japan. The Neosinocythere species were discovered in gravity-flow sediments that were deposited below a depth of 84.9 m with a paleo-summer bottom temperature of 23.7°C and a paleo-winter bottom temperature of 14.1°C, based on a modern analog technique using the ostracode assemblage. Paleobiogeographical and paleoenvironmental analyses indicate that Neosinocythere appeared around the southeastern coast of the Eurasian continent, extended distribution in the northern coast of the Eurasian continent before migrating southward along the coast of the Eurasian continent as global temperatures decreased. The high-diversity area shifted from high latitudes to low latitudes.

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Palaemon monsdamarum n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the late Miocene of Mondaino (Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Natural History Sciences ◽

10.4081/nhs.2018.357 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Giovanni Pasini ◽

Alessandro Garassino

Keyword(s):

Late Miocene ◽

Fossil Record ◽

First Report ◽

Upper Miocene

We report Palaemon monsdamarum n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the tripoli of the Messinian (upper Miocene) of Mondaino (Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy). The presence of a new caridean species expands the scarce knowledge on the distribution and environmental range for the genus, usually scarcely reported in the worldwide Cenozoic fossil record. This is the first report of a carideans from the Miocene of Italy.

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Sequence stratigraphy and characteristics of depositional systems of the Upper Miocene to Lower Pleistocene in the Kitakambara Area, Niigata Basin, central Japan.

The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan ◽

10.5575/geosoc.107.585 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 107 (9) ◽

pp. 585-604 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Osamu Takano ◽

Shigehiro Moriya ◽

Mizue Nishimura ◽

Fumio Akiba ◽

Masanori Abe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sequence Stratigraphy ◽

Central Japan ◽

Upper Miocene ◽

Lower Pleistocene ◽

Depositional Systems

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The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae)

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756804009598 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 141 (5) ◽

pp. 573-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

GIORGIO CARNEVALE

Keyword(s):

Fossil Record ◽

Single Specimen ◽

Crucial Importance ◽

Skeletal Morphology ◽

Upper Miocene ◽

Dorsal Fin ◽

The Family

The first fossil ribbonfish, Trachipterus mauritanicus sp. nov., based on a single specimen, is described from Sidi-Brahim, an Upper Miocene (Messinian) locality situated in the central sector of the Chelif Basin, northwestern Algeria. Trachipterus mauritanicus sp. nov. is characterized by a flattened neurocranium and an advanced insertion of the dorsal fin. Based on skeletal morphology, T. mauritanicus sp. nov. appears to be related to T. arawatae and T. trachypterus. Trachipterus mauritanicus sp. nov. represents the eighth taxon described up to now from Sidi-Brahim. The occurrence of the first fossil member of the family Trachipteridae from the Upper Miocene sediments of northwestern Algeria emphasizes the crucial importance of the Messinian ichthyofaunas from Algeria to our knowledge of the fossil record of the Teleostei.

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