Where: Japan (40.3° N, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 140.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wakimoto Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Fossils come from the upper part of the beds underlying the Sandy shale beds. The stratigraphy includes the "Gray shale beds" overlain by the "Alternation of sandstone and shale beds" and then the "Sandy shale beds." The "Alternation of sandstone and shale beds" likely corresponds to the Wakimoto beds as proposed by S. Toyama. Wakimoto Formation is Middle Pleistocene age (Ozawa & Kamiya, 2005).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai (IGPS)

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 190675: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2017

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