Tobaru: Piacenzian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Neoscopelidae
Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara 1943
Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Ceratoscopelus townsendi (Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1889)
Electrona risso (Cocco 1829)
Diaphus mollis Tåning 1928
Diaphus chrysorhynchus Gilbert and Cramer 1897
Diaphus lucidus Goode and Bean 1895
Diaphus richardsoni Tåning 1932
Symbolophorus evermanni (Gilbert 1905)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Okinawa
Coordinates: 26.4° North, 128.0° 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:219767
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-21 10:03:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-21 10:03:54
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]