Where: Okinawa, Japan (26.0° N, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 131.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Nomura and N. Zinbo. 1935. Fossil and recent Mollusca from the island of Kita-Daito-Zima. Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Geology 18(1):41-51 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96696: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.06.2010, edited by Mark Uhen

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