Minatogawa fissure: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Manouria oyamai Takahashi et al. 2003
Takahashi et al. 2018
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Geoemydidae indet. Theobald 1868
Takahashi et al. 2018
Geoemyda japonica Fan 1931
Takahashi et al. 2018
Cuora sp. Gray 1855
Takahashi et al. 2018
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Buteo buteo (Linnaeus 1758)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Circus spilonotus Kaup 1847
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus 1758
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Scolopax mira Hartert 1916
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax capillatus (Temminck and Schlegel 1849)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin 1789)
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Garrulus lidthi Bonaparte 1850
Corvus macrorhynchos Wagler 1827
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Turdidae
Zoothera major (Ogawa 1905)
recombined as Zoothera dauma major
Turdus pallidus Gmelin 1789
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Pycnonotidae
Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temminck 1830)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Otus lempiji (Horsfield 1821)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Treron formosae Swinhoe 1863
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porzana fusca (Linnaeus 1766)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
recombined as Zapornia fusca
Gallirallus okinawae (Yamashina and Mano 1981)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 26.1° North, 127.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 127.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:18250 ± 650 to 16600 ± 300 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: OPM-FV
Metadata
Database number:192971
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Vlachos, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-04-28 09:19:53 Last modified:2018-05-17 20:55:13
Access level:the public Released:2018-04-28 09:19:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
65721. 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]

Secondary references:

65722 H. Matsuoka and Y. Hasegawa. 2018. Birds around the Minatogawa Man: the Late Pleistocene avian fossil assemblage of the Minatogawa Fissure, southern part of Okinawa Island, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 22:1-21 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
65605 A. Takahashi, T. Ikeda, M. Manabe and Y. Hasegawa. 2018. Freshwater and terrestrial turtle fossils discovered from the Minatogawa man site, southern part of Okinawajima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 22:51-58 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]