Wakihara, Kanazawa City: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 136.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 135.2° 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:Yamashina
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Basal part of the Takakubo Formation (Late Miocene)." Takakubo Formation revised as the Saikawa Formation, which was redefined as the Yamashina and Saikawa Formations by Yamada et al. (2017). According to Yamada et al. (2017), the Yamashina Formation contains diatoms which indicate ca.15.6-15.4 Ma within the diatom zone NPD4A. The overlying Saikawa Formation contains diatoms considered to be reworked. However, calcareous nannofossils of the zone CN5a (13.6-11.8 Ma) were reported from the Saikawa Formation in a previous study.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine conglomerate
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:161498
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Clapham
Created:2014-09-06 21:38:52 Last modified:2026-03-23 12:46:19
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-06 21:38:52
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]