Where: Japan (36.4° N, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 108.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parafusulina yabei foram zone, Nabeyama Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Lower Nabeyama Formation (about 10 m above the top of the Izuru Formation), with Parafusulina yabei Hanzawa, 1942

•"the age of the Yamasuge fauna is Artinskian to Kungurian, most probably Kungurian" (Tazawa et al. 2012)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Y. Okumura, M. Shimizu

• Repository: Kuzu Fossil Museum in Kuzu, Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture.

Primary reference: J. I. Tazawa, Y. Okumura, and M. Shimizu. 2012. Permian brachiopods from Yamasuge in the Kuzu area, Ashio Mountains, central Japan, part 2. Science Reports, Niigata University (Geology) 27:51-71 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149804: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)