Natural History Report of Kanagawa
Online ISSN : 2189-6712
Print ISSN : 0388-9009
Fossil elasombranchs from the Miura Group (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene) in the Miura Peninsula, Central Japan
Takeshi Tanaka
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2001 Volume 2001 Issue 22 Pages 73-80

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This paper is intended as to describe 10 taxa of elasmobranchs from 9 localities in the Miura Peninsula of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The nine localities are 3 formations in the Miura group: lkeko, Zushi and Misaki. The age of the formations are considered as the Late Miocene the Early Pliocene. The remainders of the fauna are composed of the folowing taxa: Dalatias licha, Pristiophorus sp., Odontaspidiae gen. et sp. indet., Carcharodon carcharias, Isurus hastalis, Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharocles megalodon, Parotodus benedeni, Hemipristis serra, Carcharhinus sp. They can be classified into both extict and recent groups. The elements of elasmoblach fauna of the Zushi and the Misaki formations are quite similar to those of the faunas of the Senhata and the Oiso formations. These faunas are characterized by the taxa in the Late Miocene.
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© 2001 Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History
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