Where: Japan (35.3° N, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 139.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Lower-middle Koshiba Formation is constrained to 1.63-1.475 Ma (MIS 49-57) by nannofossil, planktonic foram, and oxygen isotope stratigraphy (Nozaki et al., 2014)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 190822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2017

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