Ooimazato 3 Choume: Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Omura 1976 1 specimen
    = Balaenoptera edeni Anderson 1879
Tanaka and Taruno 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Osaka County:Kansai
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 135.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1 meters
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 8800 to 4000 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Namba
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: the lower alternation of sand and mud deposit, the marine clay middle part, and the sandysilt upper part
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Thus, the estimated age of OMNH-QV4816 is about 8800 to 4000 years before present, which was the age of the Jomon transgression creating the Kawachi Bay (Figure 1).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The excavation was made during subway construction, so the locality is the eastern end of Imazato Station
Metadata
Database number:190349
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-05 15:17:20 Last modified:2025-04-29 07:09:32
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-05 15:17:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

38903. Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2017. Balaenoptera edeni skull from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka City, Japan. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(3.50A):1-13 [J. Alroy/D. Mathieson/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

91907 H. Omura. 1976. Whale bones from Osaka. Nature Study (Newsletter from the Osaka Museum of Natural History) 22:78-82 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
91906 Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2025. Two new materials of whale remains from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka, Japan: Filling the age of lacking reports on Holocene baleen whales from Japan. Mammal Study 50(3) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]