Choshi: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 1 specimen
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group VII bullae"
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group VI bullae"
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
5 specimens
Tanaka et al. 2018
Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group II bullae"
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group V bullae"
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group IV bullae"
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
Oishi and Hasegawa 1995
"Group III bullae"
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Chiba
Coordinates: 35.8° North, 140.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 140.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean - Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Na-arai
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:56942
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-29 09:42:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-29 09:42:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

15356. T. Kimura and Y. Hasegawa. 2004. An outline of the Miocene cetotheres of Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8:79-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33319 T. Kimura. 2009. Review of the fossil balaenids from Japan with a re-description of Eubalaena shinshuensis (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Quaderni del Museo di Storia Naturale di Livorno 22:3-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15571 M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. Diversity of Pliocene mysticetes from eastern Japan. The Island Arc 3:436-452 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12148 M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
48277 Y. Tanaka, H. Furusawa, and L. G. Barnes. 2018. Fossil herpetocetine baleen whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the lower Pliocene Horokaoshirarika Formation at Numata, Hokkaido, northern Japan. Paleontological Research 22(4):295-306 [M. Uhen/L. Petruny/M. Uhen]