Aikawa: Middle Miocene - Late Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Perissodactyla
- Paleoparadoxiidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 141.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 139.0° East (Wright 2013) |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 - Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene - Late Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Turusi | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lowest Turusi bed |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: no lithology description | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 40519 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-06-24 12:06:58 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-24 12:06:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10903. | R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |