Yoshii, Itahana Formation: Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
1 specimen
Tonomori 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Gunma
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 139.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 136.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Itahana
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:101827
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-04 02:33:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-04 02:33:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34632. S. Miyazaki and H. Horikawa. 1985. Odobenidae cf. Neotherium from the Middle Miocene of Yoshii Town, Gunma Prefecture, Central Japan. The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan Monograph 30:75-90 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

34620 H. Horikawa, S. Miyakazi, and S. Kobayashi. 1992. Some of the fossil record of pinnipeds from Japan. International Geological Congress 29:352 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
82512 W. Tonomori. 2022. First report of Neotherium mandible from the Miocene Shimane, Japan: Review of basal odobenids in the western North Pacific. Historical Biology 34(1):52-61 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]