Also known as Samples 21-29 and 311

Where: Japan (34.8° N, 138.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 137.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hijikata Formation (Kakegawa Group), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Overlies the Horinouchi Formation, interbedded with the T-3 tuff layer, thickly bedded.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, silty mudstone and tuff

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk,

• There were 200-1500 individual forams present in each sample. The number of mollusc individuals per sample is not reported. Forams were extracted from blocks of sediment weighing 1-2kg each.

Primary reference: K. Chinzei and M. Aoshima. 1976. Marine Thermal Structure of the Plio-Pleistocene Warm Water in Central Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 19(3):179-203 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45526: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 29.10.2004

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