USGS 17601, Kunjabaru (DF 117) (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.7° N, 128.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 127.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nakoshi Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• Nakoshi Formation is Calabrian (c. 1.65-1.45 Ma) according to calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy (Yamamoto et al., 2003, 2006).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Delos E. Flint; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1957. Tertiary and Pleistocene Brachiopods of Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 314(A):1-20 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190237: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Frenulinidae