Where: Aomori, Japan (41.4° N, 141.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• No direct dating is available for the fossil localities, but the occurrence of marine vertebrates and the inclusion of marine-originated sediments indicate that the fossil-bearing layers had been deposited near the past sea level (Nakajima and Kuwano 1957; Nakajima 1958; Hasegawa et al. 1988). Therefore, the localities can be correlated to certain marine terrace surfaces Loc. 1 (~45 m above sea level) and Loc. 3 (~35 m) to the Tonamigaoka surface (35–45 m; MIS 5e).
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Hasegawa, Y. Tomida, N. Kohno, K. Ono, H. Nokariya and T. Uyeno. 1988. Quaternary vertebrates from Shiriya area, Shimokita Pininsula, northeastern Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 21:17-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 195045: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear | |
Zalophus californianus Lesson 1828 California sea lion | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
Capricornis crispus Temminck 1845 antelope | |
"Megaceros sp." = Megaloceros
"Megaceros sp." = Megaloceros Brookes 1828 Irish elk | |
Palaeoloxodon naumanni Makiyama 1924 elephant |