Hommoku: Calabrian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kanagawa
Coordinates: 41.1° North, 141.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 141.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Calabrian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Calabrian
Age range of interval: 1.8 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sanuki Member:lower
Stratigraphy comments: Euelephas protomammonteus zone of the Narita Series
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46043
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-22 07:22:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-22 07:22:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]