Okodzu: Tortonian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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= Eurhinodelphis pacificus n. sp.
Matsumoto 1926
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Matsumoto 1926 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Niigata |
| Coordinates: | 34.8° North, 139.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.4° North, 137.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shiiya |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: a sandstone bed | |
| 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: | 46042 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-12-22 06:41:44 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-22 06:41:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49539. | H. Matsumoto. 1923. Mammalian horizons of the Japanese Tertiary: Revised stratigraphically and the interrelationship of the terrestrial and marine deposits. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress 2:887-896 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 12274 | H. Matsumoto. 1926. On some fossil cetaceans of Japan. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University Second Series (Geology) 10(1):17-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |