Yasaka Shrine: Late Oligocene, Japan
collected by T. Suzuki 1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Suliformes - Plotopteridae
Olson and Hasegawa 1996
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 140.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 137.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Late Oligocene
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Asagai Sandstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: "from a nodule embedded in a stone quarry"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:T. Suzuki Collection dates:1972
Collection method comments: collection is in the National Science Museum
Metadata
Also known as:Uchigo City
Database number:87149
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-07 09:41:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-07 09:41:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
41467. Y. Hasegawa and T. Suzuki. 1979. Left femur from Asagai Sandstone, Fukushima Prefecture. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 1:46-47 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

29340 S. L. Olson and Y. Hasegawa. 1996. A new genus and two new species of gigantic Plotopteridae from Japan (Aves: Pelecaniformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):742-751 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]