Where: Hokuriku, Japan (36.6° N, 136.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 134.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: CN5a nannofossil zone, Kurahara Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• CN5a of Calcareous Nannoplankton Zone by Okada and Bukry (Tsubouchi MS).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 161500: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 06.09.2014

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