Where: Hokuriku, Japan (36.8° N, 137.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 136.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Zugawa Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.
Primary reference: H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic Elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. The Science reports of the Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 161503: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 06.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark | |
"Isurus oxyrhinchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharodon carcharias
"Isurus oxyrhinchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark | |
Bivalvia | |
Mizuhopecten poculum scallop |