Also known as Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Where: Japan (31.8° N, 130.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 123.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nakakoshiki Formation (Kamikoshiki Group), Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.2 Ma)
• late Early and/or early Middle Eocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183076: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Coryphodontidae indet. Marsh 1876 pantodont | |
Hyopsodus "sp. nov. B" Leidy 1870 condylarth | |
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran | |
Brontotheriidae "Gen. et sp. nov. A" Marsh 1873 brontothere
Brontotheriidae "Gen. et sp. nov. B" Marsh 1873 brontothere | |