Kamiwada, Nigashi-oitama, Yamagata Prefecture (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (37.9° N, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 138.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, volcaniclastic siliciclastic sediments

• "Lacustrine deposits, composed of mostly pyroclastic rocks"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Yukio Fujita

• Repository: private collection of Yukio Fujita

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 152335: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae
Rhinotermitidae indet. Froggatt 1897 termite