Shimoina-gun: Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
1 specimen
ICMPV-101
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Nagano County:Anan-cho
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 137.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 135.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tomikusa Formation:Shinkida
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Originally said to be from the Arakida Formation. Matsui et al. (2017) state this is from the Shinkida Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:75730
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-10-25 12:00:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-25 12:00:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
25589. Y. Hasegawa, T. Muramatsu, and Y. Miyazawa. 1995. A desmostylian tooth from the Tomikusa Group, Nagano Prefecture. Scientific Reports of the Yokohoma National University, Section II 41/42:1-11 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61640 K. Matsui, K. Sashida, S. Agematsu and N. Kohno. 2017. Habitat preferences of the enigmatic Miocene tethythere Desmostylus and Paleoparadoxia (Desmostylia; Mammalia) inferred from the depositional depth of fossil occurrences in the Northwestern Pacific realm. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 471:254-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]