Nakajima: Serravallian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Desmatophocidae
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Allodesminae indet.
(Kellogg 1931)
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Miyazaki et al. 1995 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Cetotheriidae indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Gunma |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 139.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.7° North, 136.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Yoshii | ||
| Database number: | 56951 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-29 11:43:25 | Last modified: | 2015-07-14 15:08:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-29 11:43:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15356. | T. Kimura and Y. Hasegawa. 2004. An outline of the Miocene cetotheres of Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8:79-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 37937 | Y. Hasegawa and T. Kimura. 2008. On the two large specimens of Paleoparadoxia (Middle Miocene) from Western Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 12:15-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 25586 | Y. Hasegawa, Y. Takakuwa, M. Nomura, T. Kurosawa, Y. Sudo and Y. Takayama. 2000. On occurrence of Desmostylian fossils from the Upper part of the Niwaya Formation, Tomioka Group (Middle Miocene), Yoshii town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 4:57-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 55797 | K. Matsui and S. Kawabe. 2015. The Oldest Record of Paleoparadoxia from the Northwest Pacific with an Implication on the Early Evolution of Paleoparadoxiinae (Mammalia: Desmostylia). Paleontological Research 19(3):251-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 16986 | S. Miyazaki, H. Horikawa, N. Kohno, K. Hirota, M. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, Y. Tomida, L. G. Barnes, and C. E. Ray. 1995. Summary of the fossil record of pinnipeds of Japan, and comparisons with that from the eastern North Pacific. The Island Arc 3:361-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |