Shinazawa sandstone quarry, middlle layer: Piacenzian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Yamagata County:Shonai
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 140.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.6° North, 139.4° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shinazawa Member:middle
Stratigraphy comments: late Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
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
Also known as:Tachikawa
Database number:229986
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2023-04-21 14:27:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2023-04-21 14:27:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

5916. Y. Tanaka, K. Nagasawa, and S. Oba. 2023. A new fossil rorqual aff. Balaenoptera bertae specimen from the Shinazawa Formation (late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene), Yamagata, Japan. Palaeontological Research 27(3):324-332 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

5942 K. Nagasawa, S. Oba, and R. Abe. 2003. Vertebrate fossils from the Shinazawa Formation at Tachikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Applied Geology of Yamagata 23:55-64 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]