Kakegawa: Gelasian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Cetacea
2 specimens
Balaenopteridae or Eschrichtiidae indet.
Osteichthyes - Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae
Pelagornithidae indet. Fürbringer 1888
Matsuoka et al. 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Shizuoka
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 138.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 137.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kakegawa Formation:Dainichi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: about 2.1 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: shoreface, high storm activity, gravel bottom, possible alluvial fan?
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:98241
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-09-27 12:02:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-09-27 12:02:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
33951. T. Shinamura, M. Oishi, and M. Shiba. 2008. Fragmental mandibles of mysticete cetaceans from the Upper Pliocene of Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Central Japan. Scientific Reports of the Museum of Tokai University 9:1-9 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

40386 H. Matsuoka, Y. Koda, K. Ono and Y. Hasegawa. 2003. Pseudodontorn fossils from Japan, with preliminary observations on the maxilla specimen from the Lower Oligocene Iwaki Formation, Fukushima, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 7:47-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]