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1 December 2005 Eocene ostracodes from the Iwaya Formation on Awajishima Island, southwestern Japan
TATSUHIKO YAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI MATSUBARA, TAKAHIRO KAMIYA
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Abstract

The ostracode fauna from the middle–upper Eocene Iwaya Formation on Awajishima Island, Hyogo Prefecture, southwestern Japan was studied to reveal a band of the Eocene ostracode faunal spectrum in the middle latitudes of the northwestern Pacific. Based on lithofacies and previously reported calcareous nannofossils, molluscs, and benthic foraminifers, the ostracodes were found to have inhabited inner shelf environments. The ostracodes entirely differ from the Eocene–earliest Oligocene faunas in Kyushu, southwestern Japan and the East China Sea, both in generic and specific composition. The difference is considered to be due to paleoclimatic and paleogeographic differences between Awajishima Island and more southern latitudes at that time.

Described species include three new species, Munseyella setouchiensis sp. nov., Hanaiborchella reticularitriangularis sp. nov., and Trachyleberis awajiensis sp. nov.

TATSUHIKO YAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI MATSUBARA, and TAKAHIRO KAMIYA "Eocene ostracodes from the Iwaya Formation on Awajishima Island, southwestern Japan," Paleontological Research 9(4), 305-318, (1 December 2005). https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.9.305
Received: 22 February 2005; Accepted: 1 September 2005; Published: 1 December 2005
KEYWORDS
Eocene
Iwaya Formation
Ostracoda
Paleobiogeography
Paleoecology
taxonomy
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