Also known as Shizuoka Prefecture
Where: Japan (34.7° N, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 137.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yage Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• ~ 0.4-0.3 Ma; below Yage tephra of the lower “Yage” Formation; F3 bed in the lower part of the Lower Yage Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• more than a thousand skeletal fragments
Collected by Geology Club of the Hamamatsu Kita High School in 1968-1980
• Hamamatsu City History Museum
Primary reference: K. Nojima and J. Itoigawa. 2017. Tomistominae gen. et sp. indet. (Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) from the Lower Yage Formation (Middle Pleistocene) in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 43:35-46 [A. Lin/A. Lin/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193662: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Actinopteri | |
Cyprinus sp. Linnaeus 1758 carp-like fish | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylidae indet. crocodile more than a thousand skeletal fragments (Hamamatsu City History Museum)
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Testudines indet. turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Lutrinae indet. Baird 1857 otter |