Where: Fukuoka, Japan (33.9° N, 130.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 132.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kanmon Group, Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• Neocomian, Early Cretaceous. The upper layer (fourth layer) of the Wakino-subgroup, Kanmon-group. Paleolake, Kowakino-ko lake deposit. The thickness of the layer which yielded the fish fossils is about 3.6m and is situated about 10m above the lowest border of the fourth layer.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Specimens held in the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History (KMNH)

Primary reference: T. Uyeno. 1979. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Northern Kyushu, Japan I. Description of two new species of the clupeid genus Diplomystus. Bulletin of Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 1:11-24 [M. Bell/M. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144936: authorized by Mark Bell, entered by Mark Bell on 22.05.2013

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