Koykuzayama: Miocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
- Perissodactyla
- Paleoparadoxiidae
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Shimane |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 133.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 130.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.04 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kimachi |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 186477 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-06-22 16:56:27 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-06-22 16:56:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62507. | M. Ohkubo, K. Takayasu, and K. Hirota. 1980. New find of Paleoparadoxia from the Kimachi Formation, Southwest Japan. Earth Science 34(6):350-353 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |