Aikawa (Miocene to of Japan)

Where: Japan (39.0° N, 141.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 139.1° E)

When: Turusi Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• lowest Turusi bed

Environment/lithology: marine

• no lithology description

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40519: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Paleoparadoxiidae
Paleoparadoxia tabatai Tokunaga 1939 desmostylian