Yagumo-mura: Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 133.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 130.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: black shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: black shale
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:51998
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-11 11:11:11 Last modified:2005-07-11 14:11:49
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-11 11:11:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13708. K. Hirota. 1979. A list of vertebrate fossils from the Shimame Prefecture. Fossil Club Bulletin 13:21-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]