Where: Hokkaido, Japan (43.1° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 141.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Shimonopporo Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• early Pleistocene; Late Pleistocene age after Furusawa (2005).
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Kimura, T. Tonosaki, M. Akamatsu, Y. Kitagawa, M. Yoshida and T. Kamei. 1983. Occurrences of early-middle Pleistocene mammalian fossils from the Nopporo Hills in the Ishikari Lowland, Hokkaido. Chikyu Kagaku 37(3):162-177 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56376: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus cf. paramammonteus mammoth | |
Hydrodamalis sp. Retzius 1794 Steller's sea cow | |
Odobenus sp. Brisson 1762 walrus | |
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate | |
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale |