Mamurogawa: Zanclean, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Yamagata |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 140.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.7° North, 139.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Noguchi | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Pliocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | deep-water indet. |
| Geology comments: bathyal zone, stagnant, warming periods | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 97628 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-08-16 08:34:29 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-08-16 08:34:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33319. | T. Kimura. 2009. Review of the fossil balaenids from Japan with a re-description of Eubalaena shinshuensis (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Quaderni del Museo di Storia Naturale di Livorno 22:3-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |