Where: Japan (38.9° N, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 118.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toyoma Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 394 m above the base of the upper part of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata

Primary reference: J. I. Tazawa. 2012. Late Permian (Changhsingian) brachiopod fauna from Nabekoshiyama in the Kesennuma area, South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 27:15-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149800: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2013

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