Hotabebuti, Akaishi-gawa (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Aomori, Japan (40.8° N, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 137.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tanosawa Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Yabe and M. Eguchi. 1944. Note on a fossil Dendrophyllia from the Miocene of the Tugaru District in Aomori-Ken. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 51(607):135-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122544: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia koiwaii n. sp. Yabe and Eguchi 1944 stony coral