Where: Japan (33.5° N, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 129.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yotsushiro Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Tashiro and T. Matsuda. 1986. Lower Cretaceous bivalves from the Sakawa area, Shikoku. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 142:366-392 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69105: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2007

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