Shiriya, Locality 3-2: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Osteichthyes - Chiroptera
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
Osteichthyes - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Osteichthyes - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Muridae
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Pteromys sp. Cuvier 1800
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Gliridae
Glirulus japonicus Schinz 1845
Osteichthyes - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Osteichthyes - Talpidae
Mogera wogura Temminck 1842
Urotrichus talpoides Temminck 1841
Osteichthyes - Soricidae
Osteichthyes - Cervidae
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sibirica Pallas 1773
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Otariidae
Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber 1776)
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca cf. largha Pallas 1811
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Ursidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Canidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Felidae
Osteichthyes - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Aomori
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 141.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
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
Stratigraphy comments: No direct dating is available for the fossil localities, but the occurrence of marine vertebrates and the inclusion of marine-originated sediments indicate that the fossil-bearing layers had been deposited near the past sea level (Nakajima and Kuwano 1957; Nakajima 1958; Hasegawa et al. 1988). Therefore, the localities can be correlated to certain marine terrace surfaces Loc. 1 (~45 m above sea level) and Loc. 3 (~35 m) to the Tonamigaoka surface (35–45 m; MIS 5e).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:101899
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-05 06:09:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-05 06:09:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
34644. Y. Hasegawa, Y. Tomida, N. Kohno, K. Ono, H. Nokariya and T. Uyeno. 1988. Quaternary vertebrates from Shiriya area, Shimokita Pininsula, northeastern Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 21:17-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

64080 Y. Kawamura. 1991. Quaternary mammalian faunas in the Japanese Islands. The Quaternary Research 30(2):213-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16986 S. Miyazaki, H. Horikawa, N. Kohno, K. Hirota, M. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, Y. Tomida, L. G. Barnes, and C. E. Ray. 1995. Summary of the fossil record of pinnipeds of Japan, and comparisons with that from the eastern North Pacific. The Island Arc 3:361-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]