Chokubetsu: Late Pliocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido County:Tokachi
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 143.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° North, 143.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shiranuka
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Neodenticula koizumi zone of Akiba (1985), 2.0-2.7 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:102043
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-07 02:39:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-07 02:39:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34678. Y. Sasa and Y. Okazaki. 1967. Walrus fossils from the Pacific coast of Hokkaido. Commemorative Volume on 77th Anniversary of Prof. Ichiro Hayasaka 181-184 [M. Uhen/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]