Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.4° N, 140.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 137.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Niseiepets Formation (Kunnui Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuff

Primary reference: T. Shikama. 1966. Postcranial skeletons of Japanese Desmostylia. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 12:1-202 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91513: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.09.2009

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