Where: Japan (35.4° N, 136.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.7° N, 133.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cancellina nipponica foram zone, Akasaka Formation, Roadian (274.4 - 266.9 Ma)

• Lower Member. Probably from the third Shikamaia bed (as recognized by Kobayashi 2011) from the bottom of the Cancellina nipponica zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Asato in 2015, 2016

• Repository: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba

Primary reference: K. Asato, T. Kase, T. Ono, K. Sashida, and S. Agematsu. 2017. Morphology, systematics and paleoecology of Shikamaia, aberrant Permian bivalves (Alatoconchidae: Ambonychioidea) from Japan. Paleontological Research 21:358-379 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2017

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