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New crustacean microcoprolites of the Upper Triassic limestones of the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Baba Senowbari-Daryan ,
Jerome Chablais  and
Rossana Martini
Baba Senowbari-Daryan
Affiliation:
Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany,
Jerome Chablais
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland,
Rossana Martini
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland,
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Abstract

We report here the first crustacean microcoprolites from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex (AC) in Japan. Three species of crustacean (order Decapoda) microcoprolites - Payandea japanica n. sp., Favreina tosaensis n. sp., and a species belonging to the genus Parafavreina? sp. are described from the Late Carnian to Rhaetian shallow-water limestones of the Sambosan AC, which were originated on extinct and subsiding volcanoes forming a mid-oceanic atoll-type buildup in the Panthalassan Ocean. Coprolites, which occur within a lagoonal to back-reef facies, provide new insight into the micropaleontology and sedimentology of the Sambosan limestones. Their presence in this tropical shallow-water depositional setting heightens their status of sedimentary facies indicators of such environments. Furthermore the occurrence of these Tethyan coprolites genera in Japan improves our knowledge of the distribution of Triassic crustacean decapods across the Panthalassan Ocean.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 98 - 108
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