Where: Hokkaido, Japan (43.0° N, 144.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 136.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hobetsu Shale Formation (Upper Yezo Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Eguchi. 1951. Mesozoic hexacorals from Japan. The Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Geology 24:1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91354: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.09.2009

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