Also known as Kitakyushu City
Where: Fukuoka, Japan (34.0° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 127.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Ainoshima Formation (Ashiya Group), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: Y. Okazaki. 1982. A lower Miocene squalodontid from the Ashiya Group, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 4:107-112 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45835: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.12.2004, edited by John Alroy and Kumiko Matsui
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Geoemyda takasago" = Indotestudo takasago
"Geoemyda takasago" = Indotestudo takasago Matsumoto 1929 turtle | |
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines2
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