Where: Aichi, Japan (34.6° N, 137.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 137.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Takamatsu Silty Sandstone Member (Toyohashi Formation), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Takamatsu Silty Sandstone, Toyohashi Formation, Atsumi Group (Middle Pleistocene, 0.44 ± 0.18 Ma by ESR-dating, Shimamoto et al., 1994)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Toyohashi Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: H. Karasawa and T. Goda. 1996. Two species of decapod crustaceans from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan. Science Report of the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History 6:1-4 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127686: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 22.05.2012

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