Mizunami City: Middle Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Otariidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Kohno 1992 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Enaliarctidae
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Enaliarctinae indet.
Mitchell and Tedford 1973
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Kohno 1992 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Enaliarctidae | ||||||||||
| species A | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Eurhinodelphis minoensis
Okazaki 1976
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Okazaki 1978 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eurhinodelphinidae
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Eurhinodelphis sp.
Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
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Okazaki 1978 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| sp. A | ||||||||||
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? Eurhinodelphis sp.
Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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aff. Delphinodon dividum
True 1912
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| recombined as Brevirostrodelphis dividum | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Kentriodontidae
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Kentriodontidae indet.
Slijper 1936
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeteridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Aulophyseter sp.
Kellogg 1927
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Okazaki 1992 | |||||||||
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= aff. Aulophyseter sp.
Kellogg 1927
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Hirota and Barnes 1995 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Odontopterygiformes
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Odontopterygiformes indet.
Howard 1957
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Ono 1989 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Uyenoa benedeni
(Le Hon 1871)
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Kuga 1985 | |||||||||
| recombined as Parotodus benedenii | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus desori
Sismonda 1849
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Kuga 1985 | |||||||||
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Isurus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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Kuga 1985 | |||||||||
| recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Portunidae
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Portuninae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Karasawa 1990 | |||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Majidae
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Majidae indet.
Samouelle 1819
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Karasawa 1990 | |||||||||
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? Tiarinia sp.
Dana 1852
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Karasawa 1990 | |||||||||
| sp. 1, sp. 2 | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Cancridae
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Cancer (Glebocarcinus) cf. itoigawai
Karasawa 1990
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Karasawa 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Anatolikos itoigawai | ||||||||||
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Cancer sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Karasawa 1990 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Gifu |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 137.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.2° North, 134.6° 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
| Formation: | Oidawara |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| 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
| Also known as: | Hitoichiba, Tentoku, Terakawado, Ichihara, Oginoshima | ||
| Database number: | 55920 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-08 10:39:28 | Last modified: | 2011-05-20 15:59:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-08 10:39:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15097. | H. Ichishima. 1993. Fossil dolphin from the Middle Miocene Takinoue Formation at Hobetsu-cho Hokkaido, Japan. Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 9:37-44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 15537 | K. Hirota and L. G. Barnes. 1995. A new species of Middle Miocene sperm whale of the genus Scaldicetus (Cetacea; Physeteridae) from Shiga-mura, Japan. The Island Arc 3:453-472 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 71608 | H. Karasawa. 1990. Decapod crustaceans from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan. Part 2. Section Oxyrhyncha, Cancridea and Brachyrhyncha. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 17:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 26994 | N. Kohno. 1992. An Early Miocene enaliarctine pinniped (Carnivora: Otariidae) fro the western North Pacific. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 19:273-292 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61545 | N. Kuga. 1985. Revision of Neogene Mackerel Shark of Genus Isurus from Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Sciencem Kyoto University, Series of Geology & Mineralogy 51(1&2):1-20 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 12148 | M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15186 | Y. Okazaki. 1978. Miocene mammalian faunas of Japan. Acta Phylotax. Geobot. 29(1-5):138-144 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15401 | Y. Okazaki. 1992. An occurrence of a fossil sperm whale from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 19:295-299 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 40948 | K. Ono. 1989. A bony-toothed bird from the middle Miocene, Chichibu Basin, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 15(1):33-38 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |