Minatogawa fissure (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.1° N, 127.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 127.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: OPM-FV

Primary reference: H. Matsuoka. 2000. The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago. Tropics 10:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192971: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.04.2018, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Manouria oyamai2 Takahashi et al. 2003 turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Geoemydidae indet.2 Theobald 1868 turtle
Geoemyda japonica2 Fan 1931 turtle
Cuora sp.2 Gray 1855 Asian box turtle
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Scolopax rusticola1 Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian woodcock
Scolopax mira Hartert 1916 Amami woodcock
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet.1 Leach 1820 heron
Nycticorax caledonicus Gmelin 1789 rufous night-heron
 Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax capillatus1 Temminck and Schlegel 1849 Japanese cormorant
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
Turdus pallidus1 Gmelin 1789 pale thrush
"Zoothera major" = Zoothera dauma major Ogawa 1905 Amami thrush
 Passeriformes - Pycnonotidae
Hypsipetes amaurotis1 Temminck 1830 brown-eared bulbul
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Garrulus lidthi Bonaparte 1850 Lidth's jay
Corvus macrorhynchos1 Wagler 1827 large-billed crow
 Gruiformes - Rallidae
Gallirallus okinawae Yamashina and Mano 1981 Okinawa rail
"Porzana fusca" = Zapornia fusca1 Linnaeus 1766 ruddy-breasted crake
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet.1 Illiger 1811 dove
Treron formosae1 Swinhoe 1863 whistling green-pigeon
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Otus lempiji1 Horsfield 1821 Sunda scops-owl
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Buteo buteo1 Linnaeus 1758 common buzzard
Circus spilonotus1 Kaup 1847 Eastern marsh-harrier