Nopporo Hills, Kitahiroshima fauna: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus cf. paramammonteus
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Hydrodamalis sp. Retzius 1794
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 141.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.1° North, 141.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shimonopporo
Stratigraphy comments: early Pleistocene; Late Pleistocene age after Furusawa (2005).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Kitahiroshima Fauna
Metadata
Database number:56376
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-17 11:48:08 Last modified:2019-10-01 21:04:10
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-17 11:48:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15189. M. Kimura, T. Tonosaki, M. Akamatsu, Y. Kitagawa, M. Yoshida and T. Kamei. 1983. Occurrences of early-middle Pleistocene mammalian fossils from the Nopporo Hills in the Ishikari Lowland, Hokkaido. Chikyu Kagaku 37(3):162-177 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

70357 H. Furusawa. 2005. Evolution of the North Pacific Sirenia (Hydrodamalinae) and their paleoenvironment. Fossils 77:29-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]