Fujigaoka (Eocene to of Japan)

Where: Hyogo, Japan (34.9° N, 135.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 129.5° E)

When: Yokawa Formation (Kobe Group), Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• latest Middle or Late Eocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Tsubamoto, T. Matsubara, S. Tanaka and H. Saegusa. 2007. Geological age of the Yokawa Formation of the Kobe Group (Japan) on the basis of terrestrial mammalian fossils. Island Arc 16(3):479-492 [T. Tsubamoto/T. Tsubamoto]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74903: authorized by Takehisa Tsubamoto, entered by Takehisa Tsubamoto on 04.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
cf. Hyrachyus sp. Leidy 1871 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Bothriodon sandaensis Tsubamoto 2007 anthracothere