Rumoi: Early Pliocene, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 141.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 140.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rumoi
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:75992
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-08 07:38:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-08 07:38:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

12148. M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33319 T. Kimura. 2009. Review of the fossil balaenids from Japan with a re-description of Eubalaena shinshuensis (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Quaderni del Museo di Storia Naturale di Livorno 22:3-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]