Ponshunkarikotangawa River: Late Miocene, Japan
collected by Kenji Sakurai

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Scorpaeniformes - Scorpaenidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 145.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 143.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Miocene
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koshikawa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: yellowish white fine sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Kenji Sakurai
Collection method comments: Rausu Municipal Museum, Hokkaido
Metadata
Database number:219709
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-19 19:30:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-19 19:30:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
76528. Y. Yabumoto and M. V. Nazarkin. 2021. A New Miocene Scorpaenoid Fish, Raususetarches sakurai gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) from Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research 25(2):93-104 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]