PBDB Collection

Niseu River, Biratori Town: Burdigalian - Langhian, Japan

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes - Cetacea

	aff. Isanacetus laticephalus Kimura and Ozawa 2002	1 specimen
unclassified

	Actinomiidae indet.
	Actinomiidae/Entactinaria spp.

	Spumellaria sp.

	? Cyrtocapsella sp.

	Lophophaeninae indet.

	Nassellaria indet.
Protozoa - Actinommidae

	Actinomma sp. Haeckel 1862
Protozoa - Entactinaria - Hexalonchidae

	Hexacontium dionysus

	Hexacontium sp. Haeckel 1881
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae

	Spongodiscidae sp. Haeckel 1862

	Stylodictya sp. Ehrenberg 1847

	Spongotrochus glacialis
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Litheliidae

	Lithelius minor
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Stylosphaeridae

	? Stylatractus sp. Haeckel 1887

	? Stylosphaera sp. Ehrenberg 1847
Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Pyloniidae

	Pyloniidae indet. Haeckel 1881
	Pyloniidae/Litheliidae spp.

	Larcopyle polyacantha

	Larcopyle weddellium

	Larcopyle sp. Dreyer 1889
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Triospyrididae

	? Dendrospyris sp. Haeckel 1881
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Artostrobiidae

	Siphocampe lineata
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Theopiliidae

	? Lipmanella sp. Loeblich and Tappan 1961

	Cycladophora cosma
	subspecies cosma

	Cycladophora ochotica

	Cycladophora sp. Ehrenberg 1847
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae

	Carpocaniidae indet. Haeckel 1881

	Carpocanarium papillosum
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Acropyramididae

	Cornutella profunda

	Bathropyramis woodringi
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Eucyrtiidae

	Dictyophimus sp. Ehrenberg 1846
Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae

	Stichocorys sp. Haeckel 1881
see common names

Geography

Country:	Japan
Coordinates:	42.8° North, 142.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	42.9° North, 139.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Burdigalian - Langhian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:	Burdigalian - Langhian
Age range of interval:	20.45 - 13.82 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Takinoue
Stratigraphy comments: late Burdigalian to the early Lang- hian according to GTS2012 and is concordant with previ- ously estimated ages (late Early–early Middle Miocene) of the Takinoue Formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	calcareous siltstone
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

Database number:	236002
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2024-09-06 14:56:44	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2024-09-06 14:56:44
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

89346.

Y. Tanaka, I. Motoyama, and K. Sakurai. 2024. A new late Early to early Middle Miocene fossil baleen whale aff. Isanacetus laticephalus specimen from Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research 28(4):481-490 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]