Where: Japan (36.5° N, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 108.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parafusulina yabei foram zone, Nabeyama Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• "the age of the Yamasuge fauna [and Parafusulina yabei Zone] is Artinskian to Kungurian, most probably Kungurian" (Tazawa et al. 2012)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: chemical

• Repository: Kuzu Fossil Museum, Kuzu, Sano City, Japan (KFM)

Primary reference: J. I. Tazawa, Y. Okumura, Y. Miyake and T. Mizuhara. 2016. A Kungurian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from Ogama, Kuzu area, central Japan, and its palaeobiogeographical affinity with the Wolfcampian–Leonardian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna of West Texas, USA. Paleontological Research 20:367-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.10.2016

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