Itchoda-mura (Eocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.4° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 125.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Itchoda Formation (Sakasegawa Group), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part I. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 9(3):97-128 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima eocenica n. sp. Nagao 1928 file clam