Iriyama: Zanclean, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Horikawa 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Niigata
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 138.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 137.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tamigigawa Member:Lower
Stratigraphy comments: from the D unit (5.0-4.9 Ma) of the lower part (5.25-4.5 Ma); Nishihama Formation?
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine mud
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59180
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-20 13:14:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-20 13:14:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

34619. H. Horikawa, L. G. Barnes, S. Miyazaki and S. Kobayashi. 1992. A primitive odobenine walrus from Pliocene deposits of Japan. International Geological Congress 29:352 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

16918 H. Horikawa. 1995. A primitive odobenine walrus of Early Pliocene age from Japan. The Island Arc 3:309-328 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]