Geological age of the Yokawa formation of the Kobe Group (Japan) on the basis of terrestrial mammalian fossils

Island Arc

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 479-492

  Tsubamoto, Takehisa ^a   Matsubara, Takashi ^b   Tanaka, Satoshi ^c   Saegusa, Haruo ^d  

^a HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bothriodon; Eocene; Geologic alage; Hyrachyus; Japan; Kobe Group; Mammalia

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; FOSSIL; MAMMAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; KOBE;

AMYNODONTIDAE; ANTHRACOTHERIIDAE; ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34548336420     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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