Akan-cho: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Osteichthyes - Carnivora
Kohno 2002 1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Kohno 2002 1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Kohno 2002 9 specimens
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 144.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 141.0° 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
Formation:Tonokita
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 15.9 - 14.9 Ma. Age after Matsui and Kawabe (2015)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Atsunai-Togeshita fauna
Metadata
Database number:55652
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-02 06:21:52 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-02 06:21:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

15028. M. Kimura, M. Yahata, H. Sawamura, I. Segawa, A. Suzuki and Y. Muraishi. 1998. The vertebrate fossils and their horizon from Akan-cho, eastern Hokkaido, Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 52:44-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

77034 N. Kohno. 2002. Pinniped fossils from Akan-cho, Hokkaido. Research report of Akan fossil fauna 17(28) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
76950 W. Tonomori, S. Kawano, K. Otsua and H. Hayashi. 2021. Report of an allodesmine humerus from Shimane, Japan: summary of Japanese allodesmines. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]