Hikado, Motoyoshi-cho, Motoyoshi-gun, Miyagi Prefecture (Triassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.8° N, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 118.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Columbites parisianus ammonoid zone, Osawa Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. Murata. 1973. Triassic fossils from the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan, Part 1, Pelecypods and Brachiopods of the Osawa and the Fukkoshi Formations. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:267-275 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113887: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina sp. Kittl 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
? Leptochondria hataii n. sp. Murata 1973 scallop