Haboro, Langhian: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Kimura 1997
[entered as Atopotaurus sp.]
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 44.4° North, 141.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.3° North, 138.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59667
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-06 06:40:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-06 06:40:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

14859. H. Ichishima and M. Kimura. 2005. Harborophocoena toyoshimai, a anew early Pliocene porpoise (Cetacea, Phocoenidae) from Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):655-664 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

17077 M. Kimura. 1997. Fossil pinniped mandible from the Middle Miocene of Haboro-cho, Hokkaid. Bulletin of the Hobetsu Museum 13:1-7 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
76950 W. Tonomori, S. Kawano, K. Otsua and H. Hayashi. 2021. Report of an allodesmine humerus from Shimane, Japan: summary of Japanese allodesmines. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]