Urasawa: Early Pliocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Nagano County:Kamiminochi
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 138.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 137.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Joshita
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:156221
Authorizer:M. Hopkins, M. Uhen Enterer:S. Mahmood, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-12 15:27:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-12 15:27:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67255. N. Kohno, K. Narita, and H. Koike. 1998. An early Pliocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Joshita Formation, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Shinshūshinmachi kaseki hakubutsukan kenkyū hōkoku 1:1-7 [M. Uhen/N. Labell/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

51152 W. H. Fritz. 1991. Lower Cambrian Trilobites from the Illtyd Formation, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon Territory. In N.C. Ollerenshaw, L. Reynolds (eds.), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 409 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]