Akamastsudai: Middle Eocene - Late Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 135.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 131.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3 - Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Middle Eocene - Late Eocene
Age range of interval: 48.07 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kobe Formation:Yokawa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: latest Middle or Late Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kita-ku, Kita
Database number:183063
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 09:59:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 09:59:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]