Kudo-Shiraseki: Late/Upper Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Dicrocerus aff. furcatus (Leidy 1869)
original and current combination Cosoryx furcatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus retroflexus (Agassiz 1838)
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 132.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.7° North, 131.3° 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 Member:Raiji sandstone
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Fujina Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:52009
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-11 13:39:58 Last modified:2005-07-11 16:39:58
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-11 13:39:57
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]