Tatsumi-oji-Cho: Holocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.7° North, 135.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 5000 YBP (unknown)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Namba
Stratigraphy comments: middle Miocene; del Rio (2004) states that Puerto Madryn Formation is early late Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: clay
Environment:coastal 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:Tatsumi-nishi, Tatsumi-naka
Database number:235097
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2024-06-03 07:07:09 Last modified:2025-04-29 07:12:04
Access level:the public Released:2024-06-03 07:07:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

88555. Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2024. Remains of a fin whale from Osaka, Japan, and comparison of baleen whale cases in the past and present of Osaka Bay (the Seto Inland Sea). Mammal Study 49 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

91906 Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2025. Two new materials of whale remains from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka, Japan: Filling the age of lacking reports on Holocene baleen whales from Japan. Mammal Study 50(3) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]