Yuda Primary School: Middle Miocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Iwate
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 140.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 138.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Formation:Kadonosawa Member:Tate
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:191622
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-02-03 19:42:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-03 19:42:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
64624. T. Shikama. 1956. Miocene Chelonia of Japan. Sci. Rept. Yokohama Nation. Univ 2(5):35-62 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]