Kowashozu, Miyami-mura, Asuwa, Fukui Prefecture (Jurassic of Japan)

Where: Japan (36.0° N, 136.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 140.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sakaidera Formation (Tedori Group), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• Sakaidera alternation, Kuzuryu Subgroup, Tedori Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by I. Fujiyama

• Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo

Primary reference: I. Fujiyama. 1978. Some fossil insects from the Tedori Group (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous), Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C, Geology & Paleontology 4:181-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153096: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
? Curculionidae indet. Latreille 1802 snout beetle
NSM-PA11272