Whaling Survey (Holocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.2° N, 141.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 141.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Barlow. 2006. Cetacean abundance in Hawaiian waters estimated from a summer/fall survey in 2002. Marine Mammal Science 22(2):446-464 [M. Uhen/C. Peredo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 168378: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Carlos Peredo on 20.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Indopacetus pacificus Longman 1926 tropical bottlenose whale