Takatori housing complex: Piacenzian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspididae indet. Müller and Henle 1839
1 specimen
KPM-NN0000634
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
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]