Where: Miyazaki, Japan (31.9° N, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 130.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aya Member (Higashimorogata Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Assigned to Zones N17b-18 (latest Miocene-earliest Pliocene) of Blow's scale of planktonic foraminifera (Suzuki 1987)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Karasawa. 1993. Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (20)1-92 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202445: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.07.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

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