Where: Japan (35.4° N, 136.6° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 107.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Akasaka Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Lower Permian Parafusulina zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, black lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Teruo Ono

• Specimens housed at Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Japan

Primary reference: S.Z. Shen, J.I. Tazawa, and T. Ono. 2006. Scacchinella (Productida, Brachiopoda) from the Lower Permian of Akasaka, Mino Belt, central Japan, with a review of its world distribution. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 21:19-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.09.2011

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