Yoshii-cho, Sasebo City, Nagasaki: Late Oligocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber sp. Geoffroy 1833
ESK F-6058
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.2° North, 129.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° North, 126.8° 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:Sasebo Formation:Fukui
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:183074
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 10:38:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 10:38:26
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]