Where: Japan (34.6° N, 137.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 137.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Toshima Sand Formation (Toyohashi Group), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Toshima Sand of the Toyohasi Gp, which overlies the Akasawa SIlt, and is overlain by the Tonami Gravel of the Tahara Gp. AGE: Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite lis for the entire Takamatsu shell sand facies of the Toshima Sand.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hayasaka

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: S. Hayasaka. REPOSITORY: Possibly Tohoku University.

Primary reference: S. Hayasaka. 1962. Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. 2nd series, Geology 195-217 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97028: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2010

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