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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Desmostylus japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914 desmostylian
Desmostylus cf. japonicus Tokunaga and Iwasaki 1914 desmostylian |