Takahama: Langhian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
1 individual
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Matsui and Kawabe 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukui
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 135.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 133.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Uchiura Formation:Shimo
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 15.7-14.8 Ma. Age after Matsui and Kawabe (2015).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: tropical, shallow marine euneritic
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89036
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-04-29 07:07:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2009-07-29 07:07:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29862. H. Ichishima and K. Yano. 2008. A mysticete skeleton from the Middle Miocene Shimo Formation, Uchiura Group, Takahama Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Memoirs of the Fukui Prefectureal Dinosaur Museum 7:91-104 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

55797 K. Matsui and S. Kawabe. 2015. The Oldest Record of Paleoparadoxia from the Northwest Pacific with an Implication on the Early Evolution of Paleoparadoxiinae (Mammalia: Desmostylia). Paleontological Research 19(3):251-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]