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

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