Towa Stone Limited: Messinian - Zanclean, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Chiba County:Kyonan
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 138.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 137.8° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
Stage: Messinian - Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Messinian - Zanclean
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 6.3 to 5.12 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Senhata
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
uppermost Miocene Senhata Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,tuffaceous sandstone
Lithology description: light-gray medium-grained tuffaceous sandstone
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
Database number:180528
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-20 09:59:41 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-20 09:59:41
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

59901. M. Murakami. 2016. A new extinct inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the upper Miocene Senhata Formation, Chiba, central Japan: the first record of Inioidea from the North Pacific Ocean. Paleontological Research 20(3):207-225 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13595 R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]