Shikonai (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Iwate, Japan (40.4° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 138.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kadonosawa Group, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Matsumoto. 1923. Mammalian horizons of the Japanese Tertiary: Revised stratigraphically and the interrelationship of the terrestrial and marine deposits. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress 2:887-896 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91517: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Desmostylidae
Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914 desmostylian
Desmostylus cf. japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914 desmostylian