Tsuchiyama: Burdigalian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Protobranchia
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella sp.
Woodring 1925
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris sp.
Da Costa 1778
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Vicarya sp.
d'Archiac and Haime 1854
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Osteichthyes
- Carnivora
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shiga | County: | Kouga City |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 136.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° North, 133.6° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: warm with a sandy bottom and shallow water | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 227076 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-09-01 15:59:10 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-09-01 15:59:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82502. | W. Tonomori and J. Taru. 2022. Tarsals of early pinnipedimorphs (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the lower Miocene, Japan, and their early diversity in the western North Pacific. Paleontological Research 26(3):314-326 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |