Otao Village: Late Oligocene, Japan
collected by H. Endo 1976

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:Nagasaki
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 129.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 126.8° 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
Geological group:Nishisonogi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "from the Shioda bed, in the upper part of the Nishisonogi Group"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:H. Endo Collection dates:1976
Collection method comments: collection is in the Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University
Metadata
Also known as:Yuridake Mountain
Database number:87150
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-07 09:48:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-07 09:48:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
41468. Y. Hasegawa and H. Otsuka. 1979. Nishisonogi specimens from Nishisonogi Formation. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Musuem of Natural History 1:53-54 [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]