Obiriaushibetsu: Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Vicarya sp. d'Archiac and Haime 1854
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Trionychidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Teshio
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 138.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval: Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chikubetsu
Stratigraphy comments: contemporaneous with the Kawabata
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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:Obirashibe, Obiracho, Obira-cho
Database number:151921
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:J. David, M. Uhen
Modifier:K. Matsui
Created:2013-10-18 06:36:34 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-10-18 06:36:34
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
49539. H. Matsumoto. 1923. Mammalian horizons of the Japanese Tertiary: Revised stratigraphically and the interrelationship of the terrestrial and marine deposits. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress 2:887-896 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

62509 H. Nakaya, M. Watabe, and M. Akamatsu. 1992. A new Miocene Desmostylia (Mammalia) from Obira-cho, Hokkaido, Northern Japan (preliminary report). Abstracts of the Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 141:20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]