Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.7° N, 128.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 127.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nakoshi Formation (Ryukyu Group), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• Nakoshi Formation is Calabrian (c. 1.65-1.45 Ma) according to calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy (Yamamoto et al., 2003, 2006).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Delos E. Flint; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1957. Tertiary and Pleistocene Brachiopods of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 314(A):1-20 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42316: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.07.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

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