Where: Japan (40.8° N, 140.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 140.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• From the lower part of the Sandstone formation. Based on stratigraphic position above the Sandy shale formation and below the Tuff formation, the fossils derive from what is now called the Daishaka Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, muddy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai (IGPS)

Primary reference: K. M. Hatai. 1940. The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku Imperial University, Series 2 20:1-413 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190674: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2017

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