Where: Japan (35.4° N, 139.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sakuragicho Formation, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Early Alluvium

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone and unlithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: salvage

Primary reference: Y. Hasegawa and Y. Matsushima. 1968. Fossil vertebrae of humpback whale from alluvial deposite in Yokohama City. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum 1(1):29-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51310: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.06.2005, edited by Austin Hendy

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