Also known as Shiomi

Where: Hokkaido, Japan (45.4° N, 141.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 140.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Koetoi Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Tomida and N. Kohno. 1992. Fossil marine mammals from the Koetoi Formation (middle late Miocene to early Pliocene) in Wakkanai City, Northern Hokkaido, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 25:49-56 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 102986: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.01.2011