Where: Japan (33.2° N, 129.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 126.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fukui Formation (Sasebo 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 183073: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Brachyodus japonicus" = Elomeryx japonicus
"Brachyodus japonicus" = Elomeryx japonicus Matsumoto 1925 anthracothere |