Kume Island Fossil Rodents: Early Pleistocene - Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 26.4° North, 126.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene - Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
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:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:214618
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:A. Levy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2020-10-11 14:20:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-11 14:20:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

73976. L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, A. A.E. van der Geer, and C. L. Wijngaarden. 2017. Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary International 445:269-278 [M. Uhen/A. Levy/A. Levy]