PBDB Collection

Haboro, south: Zanclean, Japan

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

	Haborophocoena toyoshimai Ichishima and Kimura 2005	Ichishima and Kimura 2013	1 specimen

	Haborophocoena minutus n. sp. Ichishima and Kimura 2009		1 specimen
see common names

Geography

Country:	Japan	State/province:	Hokkaido
Coordinates:	44.3° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	44.2° North, 140.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Pliocene
Stage:	Zanclean	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Zanclean
Age range of interval:	5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Embetsu
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation
Stratigraphy comments: early Pliocene

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	blue mudstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: bluish-gray massive mudstone
Environment:	coastal indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

general faunal/floral analysis

Metadata

Database number:	105557
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2011-02-22 08:17:29	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-02-22 08:17:29
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

35264.

H. Ichishima and M. Kimura. 2009. A new species of Haborophocoena, an Early Pliocene phocoenid cetacean from Hokkaido, Japan. Marine Mammal Science 25(4):855-874 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

48161

H. Ichishima and M. Kimura. 2013. New material of Haborophocoena toyoshimai (Odontoceti: Phocoenidae) from the Lower Pliocene Embetsu Formation of Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research 17(2):127-137 [M. Uhen/L. Petruny/M. Uhen]