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

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 89417: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2009