Where: Hiroshima, Japan (34.9° N, 133.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 130.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Korematsu Formation (Bihoku Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Middle Miocene

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and limestone

Primary reference: T. Kimura and Y. Hasegawa. 2004. An outline of the Miocene cetotheres of Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8:79-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56957: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.11.2005