Taiki: Langhian - Serravallian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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= Taikicetus inouei n. gen., n. sp.
Tanaka et al. 2018
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Tanaka et al. 2018 | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Provannidae
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Provanna sp.
Dall 1918
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Amano and Little 2014 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hokkaido | County: | Hiroo |
| Coordinates: | 42.5° North, 143.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.5° North, 140.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian - Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | maximum 14.2 ± 1 Ma (fission track) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Nupinai | Formation: | Hikatagawa | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Fission track age of the underlying Green-Tuff Rekifune Formation was reported as 14.2 ±1 Ma (Koshimizu & Kim, 1986). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56949 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-29 11:36:06 | Last modified: | 2025-10-29 13:37:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-29 11:36:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66473. | F. Egashira and M. Kimura. 1998. A new fossil Mysticeti from the Taiki town, Hiroo County, Hokkaido. Nature and Science 111:7-22 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 70446 | K. Amano and C. T. S. Little. 2014. Miocene abyssochrysoid gastropod Provanna from Japanese seep and whale-fall sites. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(1):163-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] | |
| 66232 | Y. Tanaka, T. Ando, and H. Sawamura. 2018. A new species of Middle Miocene baleen whale from the Nupinai Group, Hikatagawa Formation of Hokkaido, Japan. PeerJ 6:e4934 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |