Torikoshi: Late/Upper Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Clupeiformes
- Clupeoidei
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? Clupeidae indet.
Cuvier 1817
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shimane | County: | Torikoshi |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 133.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 131.6° 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: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dogo |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: black shale | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52024 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-12 07:23:33 | Last modified: | 2018-11-24 12:44:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-12 07:23:33 |
| 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] |