Sakai City: Holocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Osaka
Coordinates: 35.0° North, 135.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Namba
Stratigraphy comments: Namba Formation?; not older than about 2000 B.P.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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:240692
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2025-05-15 12:21:12 Last modified:2025-05-15 12:21:54
Access level:the public Released:2025-05-15 12:21:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

92044. Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2023. On a humpback whale bone from the underground in Sakai City, Osaka, Japan. Nature Study 69(1):7-10 [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]