Where: Japan (32.5° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 123.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Akasaki Formation (Miroku Group), Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.2 Ma)
• late Early and/or early Middle Eocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183077: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran | |
Hyopsodus "sp. nov. A" Leidy 1870 condylarth | |
Isectolophus "sp. nov." Scott and Osborn 1887 odd-toed ungulate | |
Dichobunoidea "Gen. et sp. nov. A (large)" Gill 1872 even-toed ungulate
Dichobunoidea "Gen. et sp. nov. B (small)" Gill 1872 even-toed ungulate | |
Sivaladapidae "Gen. et sp. nov." Thomas and Verma 1979 primate |