Also known as Higashi-Matsuyama City

Where: Satiama Prevecture, Japan (36.0° N, 139.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 136.8° E)

When: Gondo Conglomerate Member (Iwando Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Middle Miocene; Blow's zone N9-N13

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•Matsui & Kawabe (2015) state that this is from the Tokigawa Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy, conglomeratic conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Shimada and N. Inuzuka. 1994. Desmostylian tooth remains from the Miocene Tokigawa Group at Kuzubukuro, Saitama, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 175:553-577 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55826: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.11.2005

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