Tsutsui: Chattian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Suliformes - Plotopteridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Saga County:Imarishi
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 129.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 127.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Chattian
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hatazu Member:Yukiaino
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "Yukiano Sandstone Bed"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Imari, Imarishi
Database number:126056
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-03-29 04:34:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-29 04:34:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

40950. Y. Hasegawa. 1977. Early Neogene birds form Honshu and Kyushu, Japan. Proceedings of the first International Congress on Pacific Neogene Stratigraphy, Tokyo 340-341 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

38548 Y. Hasegawa and S. Isotani. 1979. Hatatsu specimens from Yukianino Sandstone Bed, Tsutsui, Imari-ishi, Saga Prefecture. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 1:48-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]