Ishikari Plain: Late Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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| 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] |