Mizunami, Shukunohora Fm.: Burdigalian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Kohno 2024 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Crenomytilus grayanus (Dunker 1853)
Ando 2024
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Gifu
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 137.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 134.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shukunohora
Stratigraphy comments: late Burdigalian
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:227082
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-09-02 13:40:35 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-09-02 13:40:35
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67285. W. Tonomori, H. Sawamura, T. Sato and N. Kohno. 2018. A new Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, northern Japan. Royal Society Open Science 5(5):172440 [M. Uhen/E. Holliday/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

88228 Y. Ando. 2024. Molluscan fossils from the locality of the “Paleoparadoxiid Mizunami- Kamado specimen” of the Shukunohora Formation, Mizunami Group in Mizunami City, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 50(3):67-72 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
88226 Y. Ando, T. Kaede, T. Goda and T. Mizuno. 2024. Discovery, excavation and preparation records of the “Paleoparadoxiid Mizunami-Kamado specimen” from the Shukunohora Formation, Mizunami Group in Mizunami City, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 50(3):1-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
88227 N. Kohno. 2024. Identification of a nearly complete skeleton of a paleoparadoxiid (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from the Lower to Middle Miocene Shukunohora Formation, Mizunami Group in Kamado Town, Mizunami City, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 50(3):43-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]