Okinoyama Colliery: Middle Eocene - Late Eocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Desmatotherium grangeri
Tokunaga 1933
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Osteichthyes
- Perissodactyla
- Amynodontidae
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Amynodon watanabei
Tokunaga 1926
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Yamaguchi |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 131.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 126.9° 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: | Ube |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coal |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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: | Okino-yama; Ube City | ||
| Database number: | 183065 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-30 10:05:49 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-30 10:05:49 |
| 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] |