Ashiya-machi (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (33.9° N, 130.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 127.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yamaga Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part II. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12(1):11-140 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203235: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Astriclypeidae
Echinodiscus chikuzensis n. sp. sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida - Scutellidae
Scutella nipponica n. sp. Nagao 1928 sand dollar