Also known as Kurotaki

Where: Shiga Prefecture, Japan (34.9° N, 136.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 133.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kaminohira Member, Langhian (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• late early to early Middle Miocene

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, medium sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: Fossil Cetacea Research Group. 1979. Fossil Cetacea from the Ayugawa Group, Shiga, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 6:41-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55453: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.10.2005