Where: Japan (34.1° N, 135.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 140.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Early to middle Bajocian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Kashiwagi and C. Kurimoto. 2003. Reexamination of radiolarian biochronology of the Shimizu Formation (Northern Chichibu Belt) in the Shimizu-Misato area, western Kii Peninsula, Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan 54(7/8):279-293 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76518: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.11.2007