Nabeshima, Houhoku-cho Shimonoseki City: Late Oligocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Anthracotheriidae
Ducrocq and Lihoreau 2006
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 130.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 128.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Chattian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Late Oligocene
Age range of interval: 27.3 - 23.04 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hioki Formation:Taoyama
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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
Database number:183066
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 10:12:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 10:12:19
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]

Secondary references:

61015 S. Ducrocq and F. Lihoreau. 2006. The occurrence of bothriodontines (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in the Paleogene of Asia with special reference to Elomeryx: Paleobiogeographical implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 27:885-891 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]