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

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