Tsuyama: Burdigalian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| Kimura et al. 2008 | ||||||||||
| Tanaka 2025 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
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Osteichthyes
- Perissodactyla
- Paleoparadoxiidae
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| Hasegawa et al. 1995 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| Tsuyama Specimen | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Okayama |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 134.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° North, 131.3° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: bay, shallow | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 76044 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-09 07:34:33 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2008-02-09 07:34:33 |
| 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:
| 55804 | Y. Hasegawa, Y. Taketani, H. Taru, O. Sakamoto, and M. Manabe. 1995. On sexual dimorphism in Paleoparadoxia tabatai. The Island Arc 3:513-521 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham] | |
| 42999 | T. Kimura, K. Tanabe, S. Tomida and Y. Hasegawa. 2008. A fossil cetothere from the Lower Miocene Yoshino Formation, Katsuta Group, Okayama, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 12:41-44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 90707 | Y. Tanaka. 2025. Whale fossils from the lower Miocene, Yoshino Formation, Katsuta Group, Okayama, Japan. Humans and Nature 35:60-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |