Where: Hyogo, Japan (35.1° N, 135.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 146.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ohyamashimo Formation (Sasayama Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• 14 m above base of section, 5.5-6.75 m above Kamitaki Bonebed Quarry; 2 egg-bearing horizons, 40 cm apart (subunits II and IV)

•From Ikeda et al. 2022: "Kusuhashi et al. (2013) concluded that radiometric ages of tuff beds in the lower part of the Ohyamashimo Formation and the overlying Sawada Formation to be 112.1 ± 0.4 Ma and 106.4 ± 0.4 Ma, respectively"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, brown, red mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2015, 2019

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, F. Therrien, T. Ikeda, K. Kubota, H. Saegusa, T. Tanaka and K. Ikuno. 2020. Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research 114:104519:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224255: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.02.2022, edited by Grace Varnham

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