Also known as Shiga Prefecture

Where: Japan (35.0° N, 136.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 135.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gamo Formation (Kobiwako Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• 2.1–1.9 Ma; clay bed 80m below Narutani tephra, Gamo 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 193654: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.06.2018

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