Kamikoshikijima (Kamikoshiki Island): Early Eocene - Middle Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Osteichthyes - Miacidae
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Osteichthyes - Rodentia
Osteichthyes - Coryphodontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 130.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 126.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2 - Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval: Early Eocene - Middle Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kamikoshiki Formation:Nakakoshiki
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: late Early and/or early Middle Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Database number:183076
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-11-30 10:48:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-30 10:48:33
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]