Sea of Okhotsk: Late Pliocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 144.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 143.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:75731
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-10-25 12:21:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-25 12:21:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

25590. S. Miyazaki, M. Kimura, and H. Ishiguri. 1992. On a Pliocene walrus (Odobenus sp.) discovered in the northern Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 98(8):723-740 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]