Haradashino (Miocene of Japan)

Also known as Annaka, Annaka-shi

Where: Gunma, Japan (36.3° N, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 136.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Haratajino Formation (Tomioka Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Kimura et al. (20006) state that this locality is approximately 11.5 Ma, which makes it late Serravalian.

•15.3-15.5 Ma. Age after Matsui & Kawabe (2015).

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Hasegawa, T. Kimura, and R. Matsumoto. 2006. A smaller manus of the Paleoparadoxia (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from the Haratajino Formation, Tomioka Group, Gunma, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 10:37-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70548: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Paleoparadoxia sp. Reinhart 1959 desmostylian