Takahama: Langhian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Paleoparadoxiidae
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Paleoparadoxia sp.
Reinhart 1959
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Matsui and Kawabe 2015 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 individual | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukui |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 135.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.3° North, 132.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: tropical, shallow marine euneritic | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 89036 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-29 07:07:42 | Last modified: | 2019-02-11 08:52:54 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2009-07-29 07:07:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29862. | H. Ichishima and K. Yano. 2008. A mysticete skeleton from the Middle Miocene Shimo Formation, Uchiura Group, Takahama Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Memoirs of the Fukui Prefectureal Dinosaur Museum 7:91-104 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |