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Otanoshike Formation
Invalid synonym: Tenneru Shell Bed
- Type locality: Otanoshike, Kushiro city, Hokkaido
- Coherent formation
- Interglacial period of middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
- Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Miyajima Formation
- Sedimentary facies: Marine
- Sedimentary facies: Shallow marine - Inner bay
- Depth of water: Shallow
- Lithofacies: Gravel, Sand, Silt
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- Distribution: Otanoshike, Kushiro city, Hokkaido
- Fossils: Shellfishes, Foraminifera (Warm current), Burrows
- Tephra: KpVI, Kp IV (120 - 115 ka)
- Hasegawa et al. (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.12, pp.686-699 DOI