Aikawa, Nakatsu Fm.: Piacenzian, Japan

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

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kanagawa
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 141.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 140.6° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nakatsu
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: no lithology description
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:76027
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-08 14:53:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-08 14:53:58
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]