Where: Japan (37.0° N, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 138.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kunugidaira Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kunugidaira Fm which lies unconformably above the Early Oligocene Shirasaka Fm of the Shiramizu Gp and below the Goyasu Fm of the Yunagaya Gp (Early Miocene). THICKNESS: From bed within ~60 m section. AGE: Early Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of middle unit of Kunugidaira Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably the authors A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and K. Uemura, and A. Obuse. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: A. Yabe, K. Ogasawara, and A. Obuse. 1995. Plant and molluscan fossil assemblages rom the Lower Miocene Kunugidaira Formation in the southern part of the Joban coal-field. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 101(7):532-548 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70333: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.03.2007

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