Hoda: Middle Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Clupeiformes
- Clupeidae
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Clupeidae indet.
Cuvier 1817
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shimame |
| Coordinates: | 35.6° North, 133.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 131.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: no formation listed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,black "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: black shale layer with well-developed lamination - cone layer | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mihonoseki | ||
| Database number: | 51535 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-07 12:04:24 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-07 12:04:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13708. | K. Hirota. 1979. A list of vertebrate fossils from the Shimame Prefecture. Fossil Club Bulletin 13:21-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |