Yanagi Coast: Early Oligocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Suliformes
- Plotopteridae
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 129.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 126.6° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 27.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kakinoura | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Kakinoura Fm. Calcareous nannofossils of the Kakinoura Formation (Okada, 1992) are of CP16b-c (33.9-32.0 Ma) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: "shell bed of Ostrea lunaeformis" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 219708 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-04-19 19:17:11 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-04-19 19:17:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 76525. | H. Mori and K. Miyata. 2021. Early Plotopteridae Specimens (Aves) from the Itanoura and Kakinoura Formations (Latest Eocene to Early Oligocene), Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture, Western Japan. Paleontological Research 25(2):145-159 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |