Where: Japan (35.2° N, 139.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 138.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hatsuse Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hatsuse Fm, which overlies the Misaki Fm and is overlain by the Miyata Fm. THICKNESS: From bed within formation which reaches 460 m in thickness. AGE: Late Miocene on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, tuffaceous, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: K. Okumara and Y. Yamagishi (1992). REPOSITORY: Dept of Natural Science, Naruto University of Education, Japan.

Primary reference: K. Okumura and Y. Yamagishi. 1992. Molluscan fauna from the Late Miocene Hatsuse Formation in the Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 165:1009-1023 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71049: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.04.2007

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