Yotsukura: Zanclean, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Osteichthyes
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukushima |
| Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 141.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 140.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yotsukura | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early early Pliocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: shallow marine, little life, possibly anoxic | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 220456 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-06-01 14:54:39 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-06-01 14:54:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |