Also known as Kitahatakamihira-no, Karatsu City, Saga
Where: Japan (33.5° N, 130.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 126.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kishima Formation (Kishima Group), Late/Upper Eocene to Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 28.4 Ma)
• latest Eocene or earliest Oligocene
• 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 183072: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
? Amynodontidae indet. Scott and Osborn 1883 odd-toed ungulate |