Also known as Ohno Town

Where: Japan (33.2° N, 129.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 126.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nakazato Formation (Sasebo Group), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Middle part of the Oligocene (near the boundary between the early and the late Oligocene) - the age of the Nakazato Formation is estimated to be around 29 Ma based on fission-track dating of the formations above and below; “Yunoki Sanmai beds” in the Nakazato Formation (“Hiu Beds” in Nagao, 1927a, b), basal part of the Sasebo Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Tsubamoto and N. Kohno. 2011. Reappraisal of “Brachyodus” japonicus, an Oligocene anthracotheriid cetartiodactyl from Japan. Paleontological Research 15(3):115-124 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180396: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.07.2016

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