Hamada, San-in, Pleistocene: Pleistocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 132.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° North, 131.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 30760 ybp
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:102047
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-07 03:13:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-07 03:13:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34680. K. Hoshimi and S. Akagi. 1989. Discovery of two skulls of the walrus from the off San-in. Journal of Fossil Research 22(6):6 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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]