Hirono: Pliocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 141.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 140.2° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tomioka |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Hirono-cho | ||
Database number: | 101859 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-01-04 07:51:45 | Last modified: | 2021-06-01 14:57:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-04 07:51:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34626. | K. Hirota and N. Kuga. 1985. Pliocene otariids from the so-called Taga Group, Japan. The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan Monograph 30:67-73 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
77037 | N. Kohno. 1996. Pliocene otariid pinnipeds from the eastern side of the Abukuma Mountain Area, Northern Honshu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 29(12):61-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
61545 | N. Kuga. 1985. Revision of Neogene Mackerel Shark of Genus Isurus from Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciencem Kyoto University, Series of Geology & Mineralogy 51(1&2):1-20 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |