Where: Japan (34.7° N, 137.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 137.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Akasawa Silt Formation (Toyohashi Group), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Akasawa Silt, which overlies the Takatsuka Gravel, and is overlain by the Toshima Sand. AGE: Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal facies of the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hayasaka

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: S. Hayasaka. REPOSITORY: Possibly Tohoku University.

Primary reference: S. Nomura. 1932. Mollusca from the raised beach deposits of the Kwantô region. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 15(2):65-141 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96946: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.07.2010

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