Sôre, Yamada-mura: Middle Miocene, Japan
collected by Bunzo Takemori 1951

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Perciformes
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Toyama County:Nei-gun
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 137.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 134.7° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hokuriko Formation:Kurosedani
Stratigraphy comments: Yatsuo subgroup of Hokuriko Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: sandstone and mudstone in alternation; fossil found in mudstone nodule probably brought to surface
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: lower part of the member yielded molluscs that indicate tropical habitat; upper part of member yieldded microfossils that live in shallow sea
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Bunzo Takemori Collection dates:March 11, 1951
Metadata
Database number:227373
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-10-08 12:21:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-10-08 12:21:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
82816. T. Uyeno and S. Fujui. 1975. A fish fossil of the family Scombridae from a Miocene bed in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C (Geology) 1(1):11-17 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]