Yotsukura: Zanclean, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Otariidae
see common names

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]