Minamisenba: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Osaka County:Osaka City
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 135.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Osaka
Local section:Minamisenba Local bed:Ma10
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Ma10 is referred to the Stage 9 of the Marine Isotope Stages, and its age is 0.3 million years ago, the Middle Pleistocene (Yoshikawa and Mitamura, 1999).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:200746
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-04-15 14:05:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-04-15 14:05:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
14607. Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2019. The first cetacean record from the Osaka Group (Middle Pleistocene, Quaternary) in Osaka, Japan. Paleontological Research 23(2):166-173 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12690 C. R. Givens and M. P. Kennedy. 1979. Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California. Pacific Section SEPM 1979:81-95 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]