Batillariid and potamidid gastropods from the Middle Miocene Kukinaga Group, Tanegashima Island, southwest Japan, and their paleobiogeographic implications

Paleontological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-292

  Inoue, Keisuke ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Batillariidae; Japan; Kukinaga Fauna; Middle Miocene; Neogene climatic optimum; Potamididae

Indexed keywords

GASTROPOD; MIOCENE; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU; OSUMI ISLANDS; TANEGA ISLAND;

BATILLARIIDAE; CERITHIDEA CINGULATA; GASTROPODA; JAPONICA; POTAMIDIDAE; TELESCOPIUM TELESCOPIUM; VICARYA;

EID: 35948980762     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144(2007)11[277:BAPGFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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