Kume Island Fossil Rodents: Early Pleistocene - Holocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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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] |