Kazusa-cho, Minamishimabara City: Early Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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| Teeth and vertebrae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 130.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 129.9° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Kuchinotsu | Formation: | Kazusa | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper Kazusa Formation of Kuchinotsu Group | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: GMNH Koizumi collection | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Nagasaki Prefecture | ||
| Database number: | 193664 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-06-01 06:51:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-06-01 06:51:45 |
| 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] |