Also known as Tachikawa
Where: Yamagata, Japan (38.7° N, 140.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 139.4° E)
When: lower Member (Shinazawa Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• late Pliocene
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Tanaka, K. Nagasawa, and S. Oba. 2023. A new fossil rorqual aff. Balaenoptera bertae specimen from the Shinazawa Formation (late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene), Yamagata, Japan. Palaeontological Research 27(3):324-332 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 229985: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.04.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Mammalia | |
"Balaenoptera aff. bertae" = Marzanoptera bertae
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