Kurosawa: 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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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Kurosawa Specimen | ||||||||||
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Paleoparadoxia tabatai
(Tokunaga 1939)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Desmostylidae
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Desmostylus japonicus
Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Gunma |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 139.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 136.4° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous sandstone |
| 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
| Also known as: | Yoshii | ||
| Database number: | 75729 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-25 11:35:17 | Last modified: | 2019-11-04 17:19:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-25 11:35:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25586. | Y. Hasegawa, Y. Takakuwa, M. Nomura, T. Kurosawa, Y. Sudo and Y. Takayama. 2000. On occurrence of Desmostylian fossils from the Upper part of the Niwaya Formation, Tomioka Group (Middle Miocene), Yoshii town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 4:57-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 37937 | Y. Hasegawa and T. Kimura. 2008. On the two large specimens of Paleoparadoxia (Middle Miocene) from Western Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 12:15-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |