Kanazawa 9: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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2 specimens | ||||||
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? Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
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? Megaptera indet.
Gray 1846
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ishikawa |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 136.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° North, 136.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Omma |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: inner shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 200790 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-04-19 09:50:00 | Last modified: | 2019-05-08 12:00:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-04-19 09:50:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29154. | N. Matsuura and K. Nagasaw. 2000. Fossil cetaceans from the distribution area of the Omma Formation in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Nihonaki Cetology 10:37-47 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 35579 | H. Furusawa, H. Yokoyama, and M. Kimura. 2010. A balaenopterid skull (Order Cetacea) from the Early Pleistocene of Kuromatsunai, Hokkaido, Japan. Fossils 87:23-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 14607 | Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2019. The first cetacean record from the Osaka Group (Middle Pleistocene, Quaternary) in Osaka, Japan. Paleontological Research 23(2):166-173 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |