Also known as Shiga Prefecture

Where: Japan (35.0° N, 136.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 135.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Koka Formation (Kobiwako Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Pliocene (~2.7 Ma); clay bed containing Sunasaka tephra, Koka Formation of Kobiwako Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Iijima, A. Momohara, Y. Kobayashi, S. Hayashi, T. Ikeda, H. Taruno, K. Watanabe, M. Tanimoto, and S. Furui. 2018. Toyotamaphimeia cf. machikanensis (Crocodylia, Tomistominae) from the Middle Pleistocene of Osaka, Japan, and crocodylian survivorship through the Pliocene-Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 496:346-360 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193645: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.06.2018

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