Hosan Coal Field Fauna (Eocene to of North Korea)

Where: Kokai-do, North Korea (40.8° N, 128.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 124.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hosan Coal-Bearing Group, Late/Upper Eocene to Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Takai. 1939. Eocene mammals found from the Hosan coal-field, Tyosen. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 5(6):199-217 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13997: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 08.05.2002, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus glandulifera Heer 1856 poplar
Populus zaddachi Heer 1859 poplar
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus occidentalis Lesquereux 1872 fig
 Dipsacales - Caprifoliaceae
Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Harpagolestes koreanicus Shikama 1943 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Protitanotherium koreanicum n. sp. Takai 1939 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Colodon hodsimai n. sp., "Desmatotherium grangeri" = Plesiocolopirus grangeri
Colodon hodsimai n. sp. tapir
"Desmatotherium grangeri" = Plesiocolopirus grangeri Tokunaga 1933 tapir
 Perissodactyla -
Caenolophus makii n. sp. odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Lophialetidae
Lophialetes tokunagai n. sp. odd-toed ungulate