2004-1

Reinterpretation of some cranial structures of Desmostylus hesperus (Mammalia: Desmostylia): a new specimen from the Middle Miocene Tachikaraushinai Formation, Hokkaido, Japan

Hikaru Uno, Masaichi Kimura
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 1-10, (30 April 2004)

Water temperature, salinity ranges and ecological significance of the three families of Recent cold-water ostracods in and around the Japan Sea

Hirokazu Ozawa, Takahiro Kamiya, Hiromitsu Itoh, Shinji Tsukawaki
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 11-28, (30 April 2004)

Latest early-earliest middle Miocene deep-sea molluscs in the Japan Sea borderland--the warm-water Higashibessho fauna in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan

Kazutaka Amano, Toshikazu Hamuro, Masui Hamuro
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 29-42, (30 April 2004)

Benthic fossil assemblages and depositional facies of the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Yuqing Member of the Qingyan Formation, southern China

Toshifumi Komatsu, Masahiko Akasaki, Jin-Hua Chen, Mei-Zhen Cao, Frank Stiller
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 43-52, (30 April 2004)

Oligocene ostracode assemblages from the Itanoura Formation, Nishisonogi Group, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan

Yamaguchi Tatsuhiko
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 53-70, (30 April 2004)

Revision of Amydrocarcinus and Palaeograpsus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) with definition of three new genera

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Hiroaki Karasawa
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 71-86, (30 April 2004)

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Neocallichirus maryae, a replacement name for Neocallichirus rathbunae (Schmitt, 1935) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)

Hiroaki Karasawa
vol. 8, no. 1, p. 87, (30 April 2004)