Where: Japan (34.2° N, 134.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 123.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus aff. subcompressus inoceramid zone, Shimonada Formation (Izumi Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sato, Miyamoto

Primary reference: H. Collins, Y. Kanie, and H. Karasawa. 1993. Late Cretaceous crabs from Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 172:292-310 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.04.2017

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