Amakusa area, Kumamoto (general): Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Isectolophus informal sp. nov. Scott and Osborn 1887
Mammalia
Dichobunoidea informal Gen. et sp. nov. A (large)
Dichobunoidea informal Gen. et sp. nov. B (small)
Mammalia - Primates - Sivaladapidae
Sivaladapidae informal Gen. et sp. nov.
Mammalia - Rodentia
Ctenodactyloidea informal Gen. et sp. indet. A
Ctenodactyloidea informal Gen. et sp. indet. B
Mammalia - Insectivora
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus informal sp. nov. A Leidy 1870
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.5° North, 130.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.9° North, 123.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miroku Formation:Akasaki
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: late Early and/or early Middle Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:183077
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 10:55:41 Last modified:2016-11-30 10:55:41
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 10:55:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61077. K. Miyata, Y. Tomida, K. C. Beard, G. F. Gunnell, H. Ugai and K. Hirose. 2011. Eocene mammals from the Akasaki and Nakakoshiki formations, western Kyushu, Japan: Preliminary work and correlation with Asian Land Mammal Ages. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(1):53-68 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]