Jakuzan: Late/Upper Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus pristis
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2 elements | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Desmostylus japonicus
Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914
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Shikama 1966 | 1 specimen | |||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Pinnipedia
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Pinnipedia indet.
Illiger 1811
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 133.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 36.7° North, 131.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fujina |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | blue siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: blu-ash colored siltstone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Yumachi | ||
Database number: | 52001 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-07-11 11:26:56 | Last modified: | 2014-09-10 16:03:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-11 11:26:56 |
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] |
Secondary references:
52674 | H. Matsumoto. 1918. A contribution to the morphology, paleobiology and systematic of Desmostylus. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai Japan 3:61-74 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
30804 | T. Shikama. 1966. Postcranial skeletons of Japanese Desmostylia. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 12:1-202 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |