Tokachi: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hokkaido |
| Coordinates: | 43.4° North, 142.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.5° North, 142.4° 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: | Osarushinai |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 53887 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-15 10:38:49 | Last modified: | 2006-12-21 15:08:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-15 10:38:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14511. | M. Kimura. 1973. Discovery of cetacean fossil from Osarushinai Formation (Lower Pleistocene), Tokachi, Hokkaido. Chikyu Kagaku 27(5):206-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |