Kanagawa Prefectural Office: Holocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Batillariidae
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Serpulorbis imbricata (Dunker 1860)
    = Serpulorbis imbricatus Dunker 1860
Okutaini 2000
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 139.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Holocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Holocene
Age range of interval: 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sakuragicho
Stratigraphy comments: Early Alluvium
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: unlithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51310
Authorizer:M. Uhen, A. Hendy Enterer:M. Uhen, A. Hendy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-02 10:46:21 Last modified:2025-04-29 07:02:40
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-02 10:46:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
13662. Y. Hasegawa and Y. Matsushima. 1968. Fossil vertebrae of humpback whale from alluvial deposite in Yokohama City. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum 1(1):29-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33433 T. Okutaini. 2000. Marine mollusks of Japan 1-1173 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
91906 Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2025. Two new materials of whale remains from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka, Japan: Filling the age of lacking reports on Holocene baleen whales from Japan. Mammal Study 50(3) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]