Also known as Kitahiroshima

Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.8° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 141.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Shimonopporo Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• early to middle Pleistocene; Late Pleistocene age after Furusawa (2005).

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified conglomerate and unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Shinohara, M. Kimura, and H. Furusawa. 1985. Steller's Sea-cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) from the Nopporo Hills in the Ishikari lowland, Hokkaido, Japan. The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan Monograph 30:97-117 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65401: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.09.2006, edited by Austin Hendy

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