Shigamura: Middle Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Ziphiidae indet.
Gray 1850
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Hasegawa and Kimura 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| may be closely related to Berardius | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Kimura and Hasegawa 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Cetotheriidae or Balaenopteridae | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Vesicomyidae
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Adulomya uchimuraensis
Kuroda 1931
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Amano and Kiel 2011 | |||||||||
| not exactly sure where this is from | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Nagano |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 137.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 135.3° 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: | Bessho |
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
| Also known as: | Higashi | ||
| Database number: | 56952 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-29 11:59:48 | Last modified: | 2019-10-07 18:50:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-29 11:59:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19082. | T. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, and J. Hinata. 2004. A middle Miocene Mysticeti from the Bessho Formation, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8:89-92 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 70393 | K. Amano and S. Kiel. 2011. Fossil Adulomya (Vesicomyidae, Bivalvia) from Japan. The Veliger 51(2):76-90 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 25585 | Y. Hasegawa and T. Kimura. 2003. A new specimen of ziphiid (Cetacea) from the Middle Miocene of Shiga-mura, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 7:41-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15356 | T. Kimura and Y. Hasegawa. 2004. An outline of the Miocene cetotheres of Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8:79-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |