Kadoshima, Noto-machi, Fugeshi-gun: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus egertoni (Agassiz 1843)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 137.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° North, 134.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Higashi-innai
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Miocene Higashi-innai Formation, N. 8 of Blow's scale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Coarse-grained sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.
Metadata
Database number:161493
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, M. Clapham Enterer:C. Pimiento, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham
Created:2014-09-06 21:00:37 Last modified:2026-03-23 12:16:46
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-06 21:00:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52618. H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. Science Reports of Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/M. Clapham]