Where: Japan (39.0° N, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 114.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kamiyasse Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Y. Shiino. 2009. Middle Permian echinoconchoide brachiopod Vediproductus in the Kamiyasse area, Southern Kitakami Mountains, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 13(3):251-258 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96698: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2010

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