Ishikari Plain: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
SMAC 2732 (HUES 10006)
Tanaka and Taruno 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 141.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Atsuma
Stratigraphy comments: Late Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:55910
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-08 09:54:04 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-08 09:54:04
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

15095. M. Kimura. 1984. Cetacea fossils fround from the Atsuma Formation (Late Pleistocene) in the southeastern Ishikari Plain. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 90(3):207-210 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

35579 H. Furusawa, H. Yokoyama, and M. Kimura. 2010. A balaenopterid skull (Order Cetacea) from the Early Pleistocene of Kuromatsunai, Hokkaido, Japan. Fossils 87:23-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
14607 Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2019. The first cetacean record from the Osaka Group (Middle Pleistocene, Quaternary) in Osaka, Japan. Paleontological Research 23(2):166-173 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]