Hattorigawa River floor, Iga City: Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
right premaxilla, teeth, postcranial fragments, and trace fossils
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 136.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 135.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kobiwako Formation:Ueno
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: mid-Pliocene (~3.5 Ma); between Hattorigawa I and II tephra, Ueno Formation of Kobiwako Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Mie Prefecture
Database number:193640
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-01 06:00:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-01 06:00:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

65770. M. Iijima, A. Momohara, Y. Kobayashi, S. Hayashi, T. Ikeda, H. Taruno, K. Watanabe, M. Tanimoto, and S. Furui. 2018. Toyotamaphimeia cf. machikanensis (Crocodylia, Tomistominae) from the Middle Pleistocene of Osaka, Japan, and crocodylian survivorship through the Pliocene-Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 496:346-360 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]