Ashoroa
| Ashoroa Temporal range: Chattian ~ | |
|---|---|
| Mounted skeleton in Hokkaido University Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Desmostylia |
| Family: | †Paleoparadoxiidae |
| Genus: | †Ashoroa Inuzuka, 2000 |
| Species: | †A. laticosta |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ashoroa laticosta Inuzuka, 2000 | |
Ashoroa (named after its type locality Ashoro, Hokkaido) is an extinct genus of desmostylian, aquatic, herbivorous mammal. Fossils of Ashoroa have been found in the Morawan Formation on Hokkaido, Japan (43.3°N 143.8°E, paleocoordinates 44.6°N 141.4°E) and were dated to the late Oligocene.
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