Kitakata: Tortonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
1 specimen
undescribed specimen in Figure 1
Tonomori 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 139.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 138.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shiotubo
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:227081
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-09-02 13:34:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-09-02 13:34:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

16986. S. Miyazaki, H. Horikawa, N. Kohno, K. Hirota, M. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, Y. Tomida, L. G. Barnes, and C. E. Ray. 1995. Summary of the fossil record of pinnipeds of Japan, and comparisons with that from the eastern North Pacific. The Island Arc 3:361-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

82512 W. Tonomori. 2022. First report of Neotherium mandible from the Miocene Shimane, Japan: Review of basal odobenids in the western North Pacific. Historical Biology 34(1):52-61 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]