Bogahora Valley: Early Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Yoshiwara and Iwasaki 1902 1 specimen
Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Gihu
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 137.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 134.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Early Miocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 18 Ma (unknown) (unknown)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mizunami Formation:Akeyo Member:Yamanouchi
Stratigraphy comments: Togari bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lowest part of the Yamanouchi Member
Database number:91500
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:K. Matsui Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-30 06:51:47 Last modified:2025-05-01 15:16:10
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-30 06:51:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

77035. N. Kohno. 2000. A centenary of studies on the holotype (NSM-PV 5600) of Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki, 1914. Bulletin of the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology 1:137-151 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61640 K. Matsui, K. Sashida, S. Agematsu and N. Kohno. 2017. Habitat preferences of the enigmatic Miocene tethythere Desmostylus and Paleoparadoxia (Desmostylia; Mammalia) inferred from the depositional depth of fossil occurrences in the Northwestern Pacific realm. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 471:254-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
30804 T. Shikama. 1966. Postcranial skeletons of Japanese Desmostylia. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 12:1-202 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
35804 S. Tokunaga and C. Iwasaki. 1914. Notes on Desmostylus japonicus. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 21(255):33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
52149 V. L. VanderHoof. 1937. A study of the Miocene sirenian Desmostylus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 24(8):169-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
52650 S. Yoshiwara and J. Iwasaki. 1902. Notes on a new fossil mammal. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan 16(6):1-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]