Where: Japan (35.4° N, 137.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 144.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hexasaturnalis hexagonus assemblage-zone zone, Middle Toarcian to Middle Toarcian (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• 137 cm above base of thick green shale bed.

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•The standard level of this section is located at the base of a thick green shale bed just below IYII 14 (6m below the top of the IY section).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. Takeuchi. 2001. Morphologic study of multicyrtid Nassellaria (Radiolaria) from the Lower Jurassic bedded cherts in the Inuyama Area, Mino Terrane, Central Japan. News of Osaka Micropaleontologists, Special Volume 12:181-189 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124809: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 24.02.2012

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