Ichikawa: Holocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
| Oishi and Hasegawa 1995 | |||||||
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= Eschrichtius robustus
Lilljeborg 1861
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Tanaka and Taruno 2025 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Chiba |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 139.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 6260 ± 150 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ichikawa shell bed |
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: | 76016 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-08 14:13:43 | Last modified: | 2025-05-07 08:38:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-08 14:13:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 92002. | H. Omura. 1982. A whale of Ichikawa. Geiken Tsushin 345:19-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 91906 | Y. Tanaka and H. Taruno. 2025. Two new materials of whale remains from the Holocene (Quaternary) of Osaka, Japan: Filling the age of lacking reports on Holocene baleen whales from Japan. Mammal Study 50(3) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |