Nopporo Hills: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae
- Fagales
- Betulaceae
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Betula sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Pinopsida
- Pinales
- Pinaceae
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Tsuga sp.
Carrière 1855
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Abies sp.
Miller 1754
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Picea sp.
Dietrich 1824
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis tokaiensis
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys daishakensis
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= Chlamys daishakaensis
Masuda and Sawada 1961
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Kafanov et al. 2001 | ||||||
synonym of Chlamys (Leochlamys) tanassevitschi | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Papyridea kurodai
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Odobenus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Odobenus rosmarus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Ishiguri and Kimura 1993 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Hydrodamalis gigas
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hokkaido |
Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 141.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 141.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Shimonopporo | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: early to middle Pleistocene; Late Pleistocene age after Furusawa (2005). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified conglomerate |
Secondary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: gravel | |
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: | Kitahiroshima | ||
Database number: | 65401 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-09-21 12:33:49 | Last modified: | 2019-10-01 21:02:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-21 12:33:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18850. | S. Shinohara, M. Kimura, and H. Furusawa. 1985. Steller's Sea-cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) from the Nopporo Hills in the Ishikari lowland, Hokkaido, Japan. The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan Monograph 30:97-117 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
25591 | H. Ishiguri and M. Kimura. 1993. Odobenus rosmarus from Lower Pleistocene in the Nopporo Hills, Hokkaido, Japan. Chikyu Kagaku 47(2):147-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
23801 | A. I. Kafanov, K. Ogasawara, and L. Marincovich, Jr. 2001. Checklist and bibliography of the Cenozoic Bivalvia (Mollusca) of Northeastern Asia (Russian Far East), 1968-1999. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 28:1-138 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
64080 | Y. Kawamura. 1991. Quaternary mammalian faunas in the Japanese Islands. The Quaternary Research 30(2):213-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |