Ishikari Plain: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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SMAC 2732 (HUES 10006) | ||||||||||
= Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Tanaka and Taruno 2019 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 141.9° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 42.7° North, 141.9° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Atsuma | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pleistocene |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 55910 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-11-08 09:54:04 | Last modified: | 2019-04-19 10:05:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-08 09:54:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15095. | M. Kimura. 1984. Cetacea fossils fround from the Atsuma Formation (Late Pleistocene) in the southeastern Ishikari Plain. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 90(3):207-210 [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] |