Minatogawa fissure: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Testudinidae
Takahashi et al. 2018
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Geoemydidae indet. Theobald 1868
Takahashi et al. 2018
Cuora sp. Gray 1855
Takahashi et al. 2018
Takahashi et al. 2018
Osteichthyes - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax capillatus (Temminck and Schlegel 1849)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Otus lempiji (Horsfield 1821)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Treron formosae Swinhoe 1863
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Porzana fusca (Linnaeus 1766)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Gallirallus okinawae (Yamashina and Mano 1981)
Osteichthyes - Passeriformes - Turdidae
Turdus pallidus Gmelin 1789
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Zoothera major (Ogawa 1905)
Osteichthyes - Passeriformes - Pycnonotidae
Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temminck 1830)
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Garrulus lidthi Bonaparte 1850
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Osteichthyes - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Scolopax mira Hartert 1916
Osteichthyes - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
Matsuoka and Hasegawa 2018
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 26.1° North, 127.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 18250 ± 650 to 16600 ± 300 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: OPM-FV
Metadata
Database number:192971
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Vlachos, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-04-28 09:19:53 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-04-28 09:19:53
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
65721. H. Matsuoka. 2000. The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago. Tropics 10:165-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

65722 H. Matsuoka and Y. Hasegawa. 2018. Birds around the Minatogawa Man: the Late Pleistocene avian fossil assemblage of the Minatogawa Fissure, southern part of Okinawa Island, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 22:1-21 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
65605 A. Takahashi, T. Ikeda, M. Manabe and Y. Hasegawa. 2018. Freshwater and terrestrial turtle fossils discovered from the Minatogawa man site, southern part of Okinawajima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 22:51-58 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]