Morawan (Kamirawan Sandstone Member): Chattian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido County:Ashoro
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 143.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 140.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Chattian
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 29.2 ± 3.3 Ma (fission track) to 27.4 ± 1.5 Ma (K-Ar)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kawakami Formation:Morawan Member:Kamirawan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Dates from Funakawa 1995 (Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan NS 108:208-215)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:basinal (siliceous)
Geology comments: basinal (siliceous), near shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45785
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-01 11:36:59 Last modified:2026-03-05 19:54:05
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-01 11:36:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

12130. L. G. Barnes, M. Kimura, H. Furusawa and H. Sawamura. 1995. Classification and distribution of Oligocene Aetiocetidae (Mammalia; Cetacea; Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan. The Island Arc 3(4):392-431 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

14507 M. Kimura, L. G. Barnes, and H. Furusawa. 1992. Classification and distribution of Oligocene Aetiocetidae (Mammalia, Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan. International Geological Congress, Abstracts 29:348-348 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
33201 H. Kurita. 2004. Paleogene Dinoflagellate Cyst Biostratigraphy of Northern Japan. Micropaleontology 50:1-50 [M. Uhen/S. Strother/M. Uhen]