Ooimazato 3 Choume: Holocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera edeni
Anderson 1879
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Osaka | County: | Kansai |
| Coordinates: | 34.7° North, 135.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.7° North, 135.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1 meters |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Namba |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Lithology description: the lower alternation of sand and mud deposit, the marine clay middle part, and the sandysilt upper part | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: Thus, the estimated age of OMNH-QV4816 is about 8800 to 4000 years before present, which was the age of the Jomon transgression creating the Kawachi Bay (Figure 1). | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: The excavation was made during subway construction, so the locality is the eastern end of Imazato Station | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 190349 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-12-05 15:17:20 | Last modified: | 2017-12-05 15:17:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-05 15:17:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38903. | Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2017. Balaenoptera edeni skull from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka City, Japan. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(3.50A):1-13 [J. Alroy/D. Mathieson/M. Uhen] |