Terao: Langhian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Paleoparadoxiidae
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Cornwallius ? sp.
Hay 1923
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Paleoparadoxia sp.
Reinhart 1959
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Matsui and Kawabe 2015 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Saitama |
| Coordinates: | 36.0° North, 139.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.0° North, 136.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hiranita | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 16.4-15.1 Ma. Age after Matsui & Kawabe (2015). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171618 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-14 16:19:07 | Last modified: | 2015-07-14 16:19:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-14 16:19:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55803. | J. Arai. 1953. New discovery of Desmostylid (Cornwallius? sp.) in the Chichibu Basin (preliminary report). Bulletin of the Chichibu Musuem of Natural History 3:65-86 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 55797 | K. Matsui and S. Kawabe. 2015. The Oldest Record of Paleoparadoxia from the Northwest Pacific with an Implication on the Early Evolution of Paleoparadoxiinae (Mammalia: Desmostylia). Paleontological Research 19(3):251-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |