Where: Hokuriku, Japan (36.6° N, 136.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.2° N, 135.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Takakubo Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Basal part of the Takakubo Formation (Late Miocene).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.
Primary reference: H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic Elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. The Science reports of the Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 161498: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 06.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus priscus Agassiz 1843 requiem shark | |
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Isurus haslalis mackerel shark |