Kanazawa 5: Early Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ishikawa |
| Coordinates: | 36.6° North, 136.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 136.3° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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
| Formation: | Omma |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: inner shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 200786 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-04-19 09:45:47 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-04-19 09:45:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29154. | N. Matsuura and K. Nagasaw. 2000. Fossil cetaceans from the distribution area of the Omma Formation in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Nihonaki Cetology 10:37-47 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |