The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea, connecting to adjacent seas by four shallow straits (water depths <130 m). Marginal seas are ideal for studying biotic responses to large-scale environmental changes as they often are sensitive to glacial-interglacial

Fossil ostracod assemblages from the upper Pliocene Kuwae Formation of the Kurokawa area, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan were investigated to discern the high resolution paleoceanographic changes in the Sea of Japan during the transitional interval

Middle Pliocene ostracode assemblages were examined in the lower to middle parts of the Kuwae Formation, central Japan (ca. 3.5–2.8 Ma). This formation accumulated in the Japan Sea, which is an enclosed marginal sea between the Eurasian continent and

The ecology of ostracods in the northern Japan Sea is well documented. These ostracods can be grouped in two assemblages: (1) the Tsushima Warm Current Surface Water Assemblage (TWSA, northern), which lives in an environment where summer temperatures

Ostracod assemblages from coretop sediments collected at 26 localities at different depths of the Laptev Sea shelf and upper continental slope were investigated for assemblage studies. A total of 41 species belonging to 19 genera and 12 families have

The depth distribution of benthic ostracods in surface sediments of the southern Okhotsk Sea, in the marginal northwestern Pacific, reflects environmental factors such as water depth, water-mass properties and sea-ice transport. Ostracods are much more