Asakawa River: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Mammalia - Cervidae
? Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora
Pinnipedia indet. (Illiger 1811)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Zalophus sp. Gill 1866
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon aurorae
Reptilia - Diomedeidae
Phoebastria cf. albatrus (Pallas 1769)
Watanabe et al. 2020
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
? Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825
Watanabe et al. 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 139.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 139.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hirayama
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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:79697
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-18 10:13:52 Last modified:2008-11-20 16:36:06
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-18 10:13:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

71747 J. Watanabe, A. Koizumi, R. Nakagawa, K. Takahashi, T. Tanaka and H. Matsuoka. 2020. Seabirds (Aves) from the Pleistocene Kazusa and Shimosa groups, central Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1697277 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]