Where: Japan (34.9° N, 134.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 1.2° N, 127.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tatsuno Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Limestone is a few meters in thickness and is intercalated within black slate of the Tatsuno Group.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray packstone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Repository: Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan (Fumio Kobayashi Collection, MNHAM).

Primary reference: F. Kobayashi. 2006. Early Late Permian (Wuchiapingian) foraminifers in the Tatsuno area, Hyogo - Late Paleozoic and Early mesozoic foraminifers of Hyogo, Japan, part 4. Nature and Human Activities 10:25-33 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128710: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2012

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