Where: Ryukyu Islands, Japan (27.5° N, 129.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 128.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Itokina Formation (Ryukyu Group), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, acetic,

Primary reference: H. Otsuka. 1990. Fossil deer from the Tokuno island, Ryukyu Islands, Southwest Japan. Journal of National Museum of Science (Japan) 23:185-196 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48721: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 29.03.2005, edited by John Alroy