Kubo-cho: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus sp. Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890
? Notoscopelus sp. Guenther 1864
Osteichthyes - Notacanthiformes - Notacanthidae
Osteichthyes - Gadiformes - Macrouridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Mie County:Tsu
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 136.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 133.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yakuoji
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:222497
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-09-28 16:09:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-09-28 16:09:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
78204. F. Ohe and Y. Araki. 1973. Some Miocene fish otoliths from the Yakuoji Formation, Tsu, Mie Prefecture. Science reports of the Tohoku University, second ser. (Geology) 6:407-413 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]