Where: Hokkaido, Japan (43.4° N, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 140.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Ichibangawa Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• late middle to early late Miocene, approximately 12 to 10 Ma
•age after Magallanes et al., 2018
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: N. Kohno. 2006. A new Miocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan, and its implications for odobenid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):411-421 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61742: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pseudotaria muramotoi n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudotaria muramotoi n. gen. n. sp. Kohno 2006 walrus |