Crinoid diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Yezo Supergroup, Hokkaido, Northern Japan

New data, principally from 'local' encrinites in the Yezo Supergroup of Hokkaido, northern Japan, suggest that many relict 'Jurassic-type faunas' identified in Europe and central Japan might have persisted in the Late Cretaceous deep-water (> 100 m) muddy sandstone facies...

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Main Author: Hunter, Aaron
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Magnolia Press 2012
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Online Access:http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2012/v7/f/v007p071-080.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/60598