noun
type locality
Technical term in biology and geology for the place where a type specimen was collected or a stratigraphic unit was first described.
この化石の模式産地は岐阜県の瑞浪市です。
The type locality of this fossil is Mizunami City in Gifu Prefecture.
模式産地の地層を詳しく調査した。
We investigated the strata at the type locality in detail.
Compound of 模式 (model, pattern) and 産地 (place of production, locality). The term is a direct translation of the English 'type locality' used in natural sciences.