Also known as Minaminagano River

Where: Mie, Japan (34.7° N, 136.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 133.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mitsugano Member (Oi Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "Late Early Miocene. 17.5 17 Ma" (i.e., Burdigalian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous, shelly/skeletal siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Sakakura in 1994

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

• Mizunami Fossil Museum collection

•bird specimen was prepared with "acetic acid"

Primary reference: H. Matsuoka, F. Sakakura, and F. Ohe. 1998. A Miocene pseudodontorn (Pelecaniformes : Pelagornithidae) from the Ichishi Group of Misato, Mie Prefecture, Central Japan. Paleontological Research 2(4):246-252 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91579: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.10.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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