Kanasago-machi: Messinian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ibaraki | County: | Kuji-gun |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 140.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 139.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kume | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Latest Miocene, Neodenticula kamtschatica-Nitzschia rolandii zone, 6.4-5.5Ma |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sand stone and siltstone | |
| Environment: | submarine fan |
| Geology comments: allochthonous occurrence due to rapid deposition and rapid transportation by submarine sliding and slumping from shallow marine to off shore bottom, submarine fan | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Hitachiota | ||
| Database number: | 69528 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-02-27 13:02:39 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 15:36:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-02-27 13:02:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23345. | Y. Koda and S. Yamamoto. 2004. Fossil whales from the Pliocene Kume Formation in Kanasago-machi, Kuji-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture, Northern Kanto, Japan. Monographs of Ibaraki Nature Musuem 1:149-162 [M. Uhen/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] |