Where: Japan (45.3° N, 141.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 139.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meshikuni Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Meshikuni Fm, which unconformably overlies the Cretaceous Rebun Gp and is unconformably overlain by the Hamanaka Fm (?Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: From bed of less than 10 m within an appoximately ~250 m thick composite (discontinous) section. AGE: Early Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle part of Meshikuni Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Y. Noda. REPOSITORY: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Primary reference: Y. A. Noda and K. Hoyanagi. 1993. Molluscan fauna from the Miocene Meshikuni Formation on Rebun Island, Northern Hokkaido. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 172:311-327 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70346: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.03.2007

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