Where: Ryukyu Islands, Japan (27.5° N, 129.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 128.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Itokina Formation (Ryukyu Group), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, acetic,
Primary reference: H. Otsuka. 1990. Fossil deer from the Tokuno island, Ryukyu Islands, Southwest Japan. Journal of National Museum of Science (Japan) 23:185-196 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 48721: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 29.03.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, Patricia Holroyd and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Cervus astylodon deer | |
Pentalagus furnessi Amami rabbit | |
Reptilia | |
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Geoemyda amamiensis n. sp.2
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