Where: Japan (37.0° N, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 136.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Iwaki Formation (Shiramizu Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• 14 m above the upper coal seam (=‘‘Nibansou’’ or Second Coal Seam in Arakawa, 1961) (Takai, 1961), the upper part of the Iwaki Formation of the Shiramizu Group (Suto et al., 2005); late Eocene (Priabonian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; coarse-grained sandstone and coal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Takai. 1961. A new Anthracothere from the Shiramizu Group in the Joban coal-field, Japan, with notes on its geological age. Proceedings of the Japan Academy 37(5):255-260 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13491: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 05.04.2002, edited by Philip Mannion

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