Nopporo Hills, Otoebetsugawa fauna: Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus cf. armeniacus
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hokkaido |
| Coordinates: | 43.1° North, 141.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.2° North, 141.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Oteobetsugawa |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Kitahiroshima Fauna | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56377 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-17 11:50:38 | Last modified: | 2005-11-17 13:50:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-17 11:50:38 |
| 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] |