Nabeshima, Houhoku-cho Shimonoseki City (Oligocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (34.0° N, 130.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 127.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Taoyama Formation (Hioki Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 183066: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Elomeryx sp. Marsh 1894 anthracothere