Mizunami City (Miocene of Japan)

Also known as Hitoichiba, Tentoku, Terakawado, Ichihara, Oginoshima

Where: Gifu, Japan (35.5° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 134.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Oidawara Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Ichishima. 1993. Fossil dolphin from the Middle Miocene Takinoue Formation at Hobetsu-cho Hokkaido, Japan. Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 9:37-44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55920: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer sp.2, "Cancer (Glebocarcinus) cf. itoigawai" = Anatolikos itoigawai2
Cancer sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 crab
"Cancer (Glebocarcinus) cf. itoigawai" = Anatolikos itoigawai2 Karasawa 1990 crab
 Decapoda - Majidae
Majidae indet.2 Samouelle 1819 spider crab
 Decapoda - Mithracidae
? Tiarinia sp.2 Dana 1852 spider crab
sp. 1, sp. 2
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Portuninae indet.2 Rafinesque 1815 swimming crab
Aves
 Odontopterygiformes -
Odontopterygiformes indet.7 Howard 1957 bird
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Enaliarctidae
"Enaliarctinae indet." = Enaliarctidae3
"Enaliarctinae indet." = Enaliarctidae3 Tedford 1976 pinniped
species A
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariidae indet.3 eared seal
 Cetacea -
Odontoceti indet.5 Flower 1867 toothed whale
Eurhinodelphis minoensis6 Okazaki 1976 toothed whale
"aff. Delphinodon dividum" = Brevirostrodelphis dividum True 1912 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodontidae indet.5 Slijper 1936 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Eurhinodelphis sp.6 Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 toothed whale
sp. A
? Eurhinodelphis sp.5 Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeteridae indet.5 Gray 1821 sperm whale
aff. Aulophyseter sp.1 Kellogg 1927 sperm whale
 Cetacea -
Mysticeti indet.5 Cope 1891 whale
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus desori4, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis4
Isurus desori4 Sismonda 1849 mackerel shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis4 Agassiz 1838 white shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Uyenoa benedeni" = Parotodus benedenii4
"Uyenoa benedeni" = Parotodus benedenii4 Le Hon 1871 mackerel shark