Where: Hokuriku, Japan (37.3° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 134.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Higashi-innai Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Early Middle Miocene Higashi-innai Formation, N. 8 of Blow's scale.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The described specimens are reposited at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University.

Primary reference: H. Karasawa. 1989. Late Cenozoic Elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan. The Science reports of the Kanazawa University 34(1):1-57 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 161493: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 06.09.2014

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