Kangawa River 2 (KCSHI collection): Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Dalatiidae
Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre 1788)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.4° North, 138.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 135.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:Iseyama
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lowest part of the Iseyama Formation, from a mudstone with alternating sandstone beneath the laminated mudstone unit that yielded Squalus spp. specimens. The Yokoo and Motohara area strata, which were divided into Yokoo and Iseyama Formations, were correlated with the Uchimura and Bessho Formations (Yamagishi, 1964 ; Kosaka et al., 1992). The upper part of the Uchimura Formation and the lower part of the Bessho Formation biostatigraphically correspond to Zone N8 to N9 of the Tertiary planktonic foraminiferal fossil zone of the Middle Miocene in age (Blow, 1969; Kosaka et al., 1992). The planktonic foraminiferal fossil, Globigerinoides sicanus and Praeorbulina circularis, occurred in the upper part of the Yokoo Formation, which correspond to Zone N8 to N9 (Kubota and Kosaka, 1990). This means that the geological age of the boundaries of the Yokoo and Iseyama Formations were deposited in the Middle Miocene at the period around 15Ma.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:submarine fan
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Komoro Commercial High School, Nagano Prefecture
Metadata
Database number:278403
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2026-03-19 22:36:15 Last modified:2026-03-19 22:36:15
Access level:the public Released:0000-00-00 00:00:00
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Reference information

Primary reference:
94355. H. Suzuki. 2005. On the fossil teeth of kitefin shark from the Middle Miocene Iseyama Formation, Sanada-machi, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 59:383-388 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]