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Makiyama chitanii

Makiyama chitanii (Makiyama, 1931)

Invalid synonym: Sagarites chitanii

• Extinct species: Miocene - late Pliocene
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Porifera, class Demospongeae, order Poecilosclerida, family indet., genus Makiyama

• Distribution
• Paleogene-Neogene: Nagano
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Toyama, Ishikawa, Saitama, Kanagawa, Shizuoka
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Nagano
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Niigata, Nagano
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Niigata

Etymology: Japanese paleontologist Jiro Makiyama (1896-1986) and Japanese geologist Konosuke Chitani