Makabe: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
1 specimen
Kohno et al. 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima County:Futaba
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 140.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 139.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tomioka
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: late early to early late Pliocene, 2.7 to 3.8 Ma
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:102037
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-07 02:11:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-07 02:11:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34677. Y. Hasegawa and Y. Kohda. 1988. A Pliocene walrus from Tomioka-cho, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Abstracts 1988 85 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

34674 N. Kohno, Y. Tomida, Y. Hasegawa and H. Furusawa. 1995. Pliocene tusked odobenids (Mammalia: Carnivora) in the Western North Pacific, and their paleobiogeography. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo Series C (Geology & Paleontology) 21(3, 4):111-131 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]