Kan-nose River: Burdigalian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
Otsuka 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hiroshima County:Kimita
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 132.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° North, 130.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Geological group:Bihoku Formation:Korematsu
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: originally the Higashiirikimi Formation; updated stratigraphy from Tanaka et al., 2006
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Nishiirikimi; Miyoshi City
Database number:81034
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-05-27 07:29:04 Last modified:2026-03-17 11:47:35
Access level:the public Released:2008-05-27 07:29:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

27261. H. Otsuka and Y. Ota. 2008. Cetotheres from the early Middle Miocene Bihoku Group in Shobara District, Hiroshima Prefecture, West Japan. Miscellaneous Reports of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History 49(2):1-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

31576 H. Otsuka. 2008. Middle Miocene cetacean fossils form Kimita district Hiroshima Prefecture, West Japan. Miscellaneous Reports of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History 49(2):67-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
94329 Y. Tanaka, T. Yamaoka, H. Ohzawa and T. Kiyoshi. 2026. A short report of the first record of an Odontoceti (toothed whale) from the Korematsu Formation, Bihoku Group (latest Early to earliest Middle Miocene) in Japan. Paleontological Research 30(1389):17-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]