Haboro, Embetsu Formation: Zanclean, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Coccconeis oculusiridis
Cyclottella comta
Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Phocaenidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
spelled with current rank as Phocoenidae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae
Haborodelphis japonicus n. gen., n. sp. Ichishima et al. 2019
Ichishima et al. 2019 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
Pisces
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Osteichthyes
Bacillariophyceae - Bacillariales - Bacillariaceae
Denticulopsis dimorpha
Denticulopsis hustedii
Nitzschia granulata
Nitzschia grunowii
Nitzschia sp. Hassall 1845
Neodenticula kamtschatica
Bacillariophyceae - Rhaphoneidales - Rhaphoneidaceae
Delphineis cf. angustata
Delphineis sp. Andrews 1977
Bacillariophyceae - Thalassiosirales - Thalassiosiraceae
Bacterosira fragilis
Thalassiosira antiqua
Thalassiosira eccentrica
Thalassiosira jacksonii
Thalassiosira cf. jacksonii
Thalassiosira jouseae
Thalassiosira manifesta
Thalassiosira marujamica
Thalassiosira nidulus
Thalassiosira oestrupii
Thalassiosira cf. oestrupii
Thalassiosira sp. Cleve 1873
Bacillariophyceae - Cymatosirales - Cymatosiraceae
Cymatosira debyi
Bacillariophyceae - Naviculales - Naviculaceae
Bacillariophyceae - Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
Proboscia barboi
Rhizosolenia cf. hebetata
f. hiemalis
Rhizosolenia sp. Brightwell 1858
Bacillariophyceae - Paraliales - Paraliaceae
Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg 1838)
Bacillariophyceae - Paraliales - Pseudopodosiraceae
Pseudopodosira elegans
Bacillariophyceae - Hemidiscaceae
Azpeitia endoi
Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Hyalodiscaceae
Hyalodiscus obsoletus
Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae
Stephanopyxis sp. Ehrenberg 1845
Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Melosiraceae
Pyxidicula zabelinae
Melosira albicans
Melosira sol
Bacillariophyceae - Thalassionematales - Thalassionemataceae
Thalassiothrix frauenfeldii
Thalassiothrix robusta
Thalassiothrix longissima Cleve and Grunow 1880
Thalassionema nitzschioides
Bacillariophyceae - Achnanthales - Cocconeidaceae
Cocconeis californica
Cocconeis costata
Cocconeis scutellum
Cocconeis pellucida
Cocconeis sp. Ehrenberg 1838
Cocconeis marginatus
Bacillariophyceae - Centrales
Cladogramma sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Bacillariophyceae - Fragilariales - Fragilariaceae
Fragilaria sp. Lyngbye 1819
Raphoneis cf. ischaboensis
Raphoneis sp. Ehrenberg 1844
Bacillariophyceae - Coscinodiscales - Heliopeltaceae
Actinoptychus senarius (Ehrenberg 1838)
unclassified
Cosmiodiscus insignis
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 141.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Embetsu
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology:fine sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: hard shale and massive mudstonen to fine sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:surface (float),chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55643
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-02 05:47:36 Last modified:2006-01-30 13:54:26
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-02 05:47:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14859. H. Ichishima and M. Kimura. 2005. Harborophocoena toyoshimai, a anew early Pliocene porpoise (Cetacea, Phocoenidae) from Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):655-664 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12595 H. Ichishima, H. Furusawa, M. Tachibana and M. Kimura. 2019. First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north-western Pacific Ocean. Papers in Palaeontology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12148 M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]