Tomogashima: Late Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus (Nipponocervus) takaoi
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Cervus (Sika) paleozoensis
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Cervus (Sika) cf. greyi
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Cervus (Rucervus) katokiyomasai
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Osaka |
| Coordinates: | 34.3° North, 135.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 135.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: dredged off sea bottom | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96898 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-07-09 09:16:54 | Last modified: | 2010-07-09 12:16:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-07-09 09:16:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33081. | H. Otsuka. 1977. Studies on fossil deer of the DOI collection from the sea bottom off Tomogashima Islands in the Osaka Bay (Pleistocene deer fauna in Seto Inland sea, west Japan-part II). Report of the Faculty of Science Kagoshima University 10:41-82 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |