Also known as Yoshii
Where: Gunma, Japan (36.3° N, 139.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 136.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Niwaya Formation (Tomioka Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• 14 Ma. Age after Matsui & Kawabe (2015).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Hasegawa, Y. Takakuwa, M. Nomura, T. Kurosawa, Y. Sudo and Y. Takayama. 2000. On occurrence of Desmostylian fossils from the Upper part of the Niwaya Formation, Tomioka Group (Middle Miocene), Yoshii town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 4:57-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75729: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Paleoparadoxia tabatai Tokunaga 1939 desmostylian | |
Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914 desmostylian |