Where: Hokkaido, Japan (42.8° N, 142.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 140.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Karumai Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• The age of the Karumai Formation is assigned to the late middle Mio- cene to the early late Miocene (12.5–9.7 Ma; Motoyama and Kawamura, 2009).

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. G. Jenkins, A. Kaim, K. Amano, K. Sakurai, and K. Matsubara. 2018. A new Miocene whale-fall community dominated by the bathymodiolin mussel Adipicola from the Hobetsu area, Hokkaido, Japan. Paleontological Research 22(2):105-111 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193941: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.06.2018

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