Where: Japan (39.8° N, 140.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 139.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miyata Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, volcaniclastic siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Kazuhiko Uemura

• Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo

Primary reference: I. Fujiyama. 1983. Neogene termites from northeastern districts of Japan, with references to the occurrence of fossil insects in the districts. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 16:83-97 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142138: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 06.04.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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