Urasawa: Early/Lower Pliocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Alachtherium sp.
Du Bus 1867
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1 specimen | ||||||
synonym of Ontocetus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon shinshuensis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan | State/province: | Nagano | County: | Kamiminochi |
Coordinates: | 36.6° North, 138.1° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 137.3° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Joshita |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 156221 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins, M. Uhen | Enterer: | S. Mahmood, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2014-05-12 15:27:49 | Last modified: | 2018-11-30 13:49:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-05-12 15:27:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
67255. | N. Kohno, K. Narita, and H. Koike. 1998. An early Pliocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Joshita Formation, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Shinshūshinmachi kaseki hakubutsukan kenkyū hōkoku 1:1-7 [M. Uhen/N. Labell/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
51152 | W. H. Fritz. 1991. Lower Cambrian Trilobites from the Illtyd Formation, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon Territory. In N.C. Ollerenshaw, L. Reynolds (eds.), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 409 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood] |