Tsuchiyama: Langhian, 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 | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shiga |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 136.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.7° North, 134.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ayugawa | Member: | Kaminohira | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: late early to early Middle Miocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kurotaki | ||
| Database number: | 55453 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-25 13:48:36 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-25 13:48:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14953. | Fossil Cetacea Research Group. 1979. Fossil Cetacea from the Ayugawa Group, Shiga, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 6:41-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |