Kuzubukuro: 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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Paleoparadoxia sp.
Reinhart 1959
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Paleoparadoxia tabatai
(Tokunaga 1939)
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Paleoparadoxia ? tabatai
(Tokunaga 1939)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Desmostylus sp.
Marsh 1888
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2 specimens | ||||||
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? Desmostylus sp.
Marsh 1888
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Satiama Prevecture |
| Coordinates: | 36.0° North, 139.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.0° North, 136.8° East |
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
| Geological group: | Tokigawa | Formation: | Iwando | Member: | Gondo Conglomerate |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle Miocene; Blow's zone N9-N13
Matsui & Kawabe (2015) state that this is from the Tokigawa Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy,conglomeratic conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Higashi-Matsuyama City | ||
| Database number: | 55826 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-06 10:49:46 | Last modified: | 2015-07-14 15:21:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-06 10:49:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15079. | K. Shimada and N. Inuzuka. 1994. Desmostylian tooth remains from the Miocene Tokigawa Group at Kuzubukuro, Saitama, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 175:553-577 [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] |