Kuzubukuro: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
2 specimens
1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
3 specimens
5 specimens
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Satiama Prevecture
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 139.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 136.9° East (Wright 2013)
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:Tokigawa Formation:Iwando Member:Gondo Conglomerate
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Miocene; Blow's zone N9-N13

Matsui & Kawabe (2015) state that this is from the Tokigawa Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy,conglomeratic conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Higashi-Matsuyama City
Database number:55826
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-06 10:49:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-06 10:49:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

15079. K. Shimada and N. Inuzuka. 1994. Desmostylian tooth remains from the Miocene Tokigawa Group at Kuzubukuro, Saitama, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 175:553-577 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

55797 K. Matsui and S. Kawabe. 2015. The Oldest Record of Paleoparadoxia from the Northwest Pacific with an Implication on the Early Evolution of Paleoparadoxiinae (Mammalia: Desmostylia). Paleontological Research 19(3):251-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]