USKF-101, Kangawa River: Langhian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Octopoda
- Argonautidae
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Osteichthyes
- Aulopiformes
- Alepisauridae
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Omosudis sp.
Günther 1887
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Nagano |
| Coordinates: | 36.4° North, 138.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 135.9° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yokoo | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from upper part of formation; age based on radiolarians and other fossils from same strata |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:radiolarians said to be present | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 227623 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-10-23 02:39:26 | Last modified: | 2026-01-31 20:50:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-10-23 02:39:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82896. | H. Suzuki. 2018. Fossil evidence of the hammerjaw fish, Omosudis sp. (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) from the middle Miocene Yokoo Formation in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Paleontological Research 22:210-217 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |