Akishima: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
|
||||||||||
|
Stegodon aurorae
|
Taru and Hasegawa 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
|
||||||||||
|
Physeter sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
Kimura et al. 2023 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| 88-1 | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Cetacea
|
||||||||||
|
Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
|
||||||||||
|
Eschrichtius akishimaensis n. sp.
Kimura et al. 2018
|
Kimura et al. 2018 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Cervidae
|
||||||||||
|
Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
Taru and Hasegawa 2002 | |||||||||
|
Elaphurus shikamai
|
Taru and Hasegawa 2002 | |||||||||
|
Elaphurus tamaensis
|
Taru and Hasegawa 2002 | |||||||||
|
? Elaphurus sp.
Milne-Edwards 1866
|
Taru and Hasegawa 2002 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Tokyo |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 139.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 139.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 76022 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-08 14:28:59 | Last modified: | 2008-11-20 16:41:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-08 14:28:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 64385 | T. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, and N. Kohno. 2018. A New Species of the Genus Eschrichtius (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Early Pleistocene of Japan. Paleontological Research 22(1):1-19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 86068 | T. Kimura, H. Taru, and C.-H. Tsai. 2023. A new Pleistocene physeterid specimen from the Kazusa Group in the western part of Kanto Plain and a review of the fossil cetaceans from the Pleistocene of Japan. Fossils 114:37-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 28532 | H. Taru and Y. Hasegawa. 2002. The Plio-Pleistocene fossil mammals from the Kasumi and Tama Hills. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 38:43-56 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |