Mabechi River: Burdigalian - Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Iwate
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 141.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 138.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian - Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian - Langhian Other zone:  NPD 3B
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kadonosawa Member:Shikonai
Stratigraphy comments: middle or upper portions of the Kadonosawa Formation, because the Shikonai Siltstone Member

Denticulopsis praelauta Zone (NPD 3B) (TuZino & Yanagisawa, 2017; Tuzino et al., 2018). The range in age of this zone spans chronostratigraphically between 16.3 and 15.9 Ma (Yanagisawa & Akiba, 1998), latest Burdigalian to earliest Langhian,
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:deep-water 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:218914
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-03-04 09:31:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-03-04 09:31:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

75823. Z. Guo and N. Kohno. 2021. A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny. PeerJ 9(e10945):1-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]