Western coast on Maki Island, Goshoura Town: Early Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Coryphodontidae
Miyata et al. 2011
Miyata et al. 2011
Osteichthyes - Esthonychidae
GCM-VP 103
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan County:Kumamoto
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 130.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.4° North, 126.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Early Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Akasaki
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: middle part of the Akasaki Formation, situated about 40 m above the base of the formation; New dates suggest this part of formation is entirely within early Eocene- see Miyake, Y., Tsutsumi, Y., Miyata, K. and Komatsu, T., 2016. LA-ICP-MS Zircon U—Pb Dating of Acidic Tuff from the Eocene Akasaki Formation, Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, Western Kyushu, Japan: Implications for the Age of the Land Mammal Fauna in Japan. Paleontological Research, 20(4), pp.302-311.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: red siltstone bed
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:179616
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-06-22 03:44:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-22 03:44:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

59494. K. Miyata. 2007. New material of Asian Trogosus (Tillodontia, Mammalia) from the Akasaki Formation, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):176-188 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

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]