Where: Hiroshima, Japan (34.9° N, 133.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 130.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Sandstone Formation (Bihoku Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Sandstone of 3 m thickness, from the uppermost part of the Lower Sandstone Fm, Bihoku Group. Horizon Kd2 of Okamoto et al., (1990)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Some material reposited in the Mizunami Fossil Museum

Primary reference: K. Oyama, H. Nishimoto, and A. Naruse. 1994. New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 21:19-28 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51423: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2005

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