Aragusku: Piacenzian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Myctophiformes
- Myctophidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Okinawa |
| Coordinates: | 26.1° North, 127.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | Foram zone: | PL5 |
| Age range of interval: | 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shinzato |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
| Geology comments: clastic dominated sediments deposited at a water depth of 250 to 1000 m | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 219765 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-04-21 10:02:30 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-04-21 10:02:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 76566. | W. Schwarzhans and F. Ohe. 2019. Lanternfish otoliths (Teleostei, Myctophidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Japan. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125(2):355-400 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |