Sukegawa, Miocene: Serravallian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Ibaraki
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 140.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 138.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Serravallian
Age range of interval: 13.82 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kokubu
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: or Hase
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine 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:220323
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2021-05-20 14:08:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-05-20 14:08:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34660. N. Kohno. 1996. Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora); with special reference to the "Mito seal" from Ibaraki Prefecture, Central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 181:388-404 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

77037 N. Kohno. 1996. Pliocene otariid pinnipeds from the eastern side of the Abukuma Mountain Area, Northern Honshu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 29(12):61-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]