Ube coal mine: Priabonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Trionychidae
Georgalis and Joyce 2017
Osteichthyes - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Yamaguchi
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 127.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Priabonian
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ube
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:185320
Authorizer:P. Holroyd, M. Uhen Enterer:P. Holroyd, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-04-18 16:59:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-04-18 16:59:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
61669. F. Takai. 1944. Eocene Mammals from the Ube and Hosan Coal-fields in Nippon*. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy 20(10):736-741 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

62147 G. L. Georgalis and W. G. Joyce. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Old World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):115-208 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]