Yokosuka Thermal Power Station: Holocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 139.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Stratigraphy comments: early alluvium, sediments in the Sendagaski buried valley
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red or brown,blue unlithified sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark bluish brown silt in part sand patch
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kurihama Bay. Kurihama-wan
Database number:52889
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-25 13:15:54 Last modified:2025-04-29 07:03:14
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-25 13:15:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
14250. Y. Hasegawa. 1968. On the buried valley and the cetacean bone in Kurihama Bay, Yokosuka. Science Report of the Yokosuka City Museum 14:12-19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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]