Makabe: Pliocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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| 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] |