Kanazawa City (Loc. 9): Late/Upper Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus priscus Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus haslalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokuriku
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 136.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.9° North, 135.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Takakubo
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Basal part of the Takakubo Formation (Late Miocene).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine conglomerate
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.
Metadata
Database number:161498
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-09-06 21:38:52 Last modified:2014-09-06 21:40:24
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-06 21:38:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52618. 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]