Takatori housing complex: Piacenzian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspididae indet.
Müller and Henle 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| KPM-NN0000634 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| KPM-NN0000633 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 139.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 139.0° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Ikego | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Biostratigraphy and tephrochronology suggests that the Ikego Formation is largely late Pliocene in age (Utsunomiya et al., 2017, 2025). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 278430 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2026-03-21 20:57:50 | Last modified: | 2026-03-21 20:57:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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Reference information
Primary reference:
| 94377. | T. Tanaka. 2001. Fossil elasmobranchs from the Miura Group (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene) in the Miura Peninsula, central Japan. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Natural Science 22:73-80 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |