Hiradoko, Noto Peninsula (Pleistocene of Japan)
Where: Japan (37.5° N, 137.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 137.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• ~120 ka (Th/U)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
• water depth of about 40 m
• shell bed
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Omura. 1980. Uranium-series age of the Hiradoko and Uji shell beds, Noto Peninsula, central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 117:247-253 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 89416: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2009