Hukuoka, Ninohe-gun (upper zone) (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (40.3° N, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 138.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Suenomatsuyama Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Nagamine sands

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, coarse-grained sandstone

• Brachiopod-bearing coarse sands, scoriaceous breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. M. Hatai. 1940. The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku Imperial University, Series 2 20:1-413 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190759: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina kiiensis Dall and Pisbry 1891
Terebratulina japonica Sowerby 1846
Terebratulina crossei Davidson 1882
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae