Naka: Serravallian - Tortonian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ibaraki |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 140.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 138.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian - Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 - Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian - Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82 - 7.246 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Urizura | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Denticulopsis praedimorpha zone |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Naka-machi | ||
| Database number: | 66905 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-10-23 10:39:22 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-10-23 10:39:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19039. | T. Kimura, Y. Hasegawa, and L. G. Barnes. 2006. Fossil sperm whales (Cetacea, Physeteridae) from Gunma and Ibaraki prefectures, Japan; with observations on the Miocene fossil sperm whale Scaldicetus shigensis Hirota and Barnes, 1995. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 10:1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |