Where: Okayama, Japan (35.1° N, 134.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 131.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yoshino Formation (Katsuta Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Upper Langhian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Niko, S. Suzuki, and E. Taguchi. 2016. Madrepora mitsukurii, a new Miocene species of scleractinia coral from the Katsuta Group in the Tsuyama area, Okayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Akioshi-dai Museum of Natural History (51)5-8 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181267: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 31.08.2016

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