Hanawa: Middle Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera cf. borealis
Lesson 1828
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma incongrua
(Martens 1865)
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| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) incongrua | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea gravitesta
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara ninohensis
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukushima |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 140.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.7° North, 137.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kubota |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: open marine conditions, roughly 100m in depth | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 55660 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-02 06:50:31 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 15:36:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-02 06:50:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15030. | M. Kimura. 1988. Discovery of Balaenoptera cf. borealis from the Middle Miocene in the Fukushima Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 94(10):783-784 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |