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, 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).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 190236: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Campages nipponensis Yabe and Hatai 1935 |