Arakawa River: Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
almost complete tooth set
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Saitama
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 139.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 137.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Matsuyama
Stratigraphy comments: Chichibu
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
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: Deposited in the Saitama Prefectural Museum of Natural History.
Metadata
Database number:161522
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2014-09-07 13:27:17 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-07 13:27:17
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

52631. T. Uyeno, O. Sakamoto, and H. Sekine. 1989. Description of an almost complete tooth set of Cαrchαrodon megalodon from a Middle Miocene bed in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Saitama Museum of Natural History 7:73-85 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]