Numata-cho, Uryu Coalfield (Eocene to of Japan)

Also known as Uryū; Uryu-gun; Numatacho

Where: Japan (43.7° N, 141.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 137.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uryu Group, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• Showa Fm. or Itarakao-mappu Fm.; late Middle or Late Eocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Miyata, Y. Tomida, K. C. Beard, G. F. Gunnell, H. Ugai and K. Hirose. 2011. Eocene mammals from the Akasaki and Nakakoshiki formations, western Kyushu, Japan: Preliminary work and correlation with Asian Land Mammal Ages. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(1):53-68 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183024: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodon watanabei Tokunaga 1926 odd-toed ungulate