Also known as Samples 1-10, and 302-303

Where: Japan (34.8° N, 137.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 137.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ukari Formation (Kakegawa Group), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Reference section of Pliocene rocks in Japan

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained sandstone and tuff

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk,

• There were 200-1500 individual forams present in each sample. The number of mollusc individuals per sample is not reported. Forams were extracted from blocks of sediment weighing 1-2kg each.

Primary reference: K. Chinzei and M. Aoshima. 1976. Marine Thermal Structure of the Plio-Pleistocene Warm Water in Central Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 19(3):179-203 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/K. Bulinski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45507: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 26.10.2004

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