Where: Japan (35.8° N, 139.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 139.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lowest Member (Bushi Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Based on pollen analysis, Nirei (1995) states that the lowest member corresponds to the lower part of the Metasequoia Zone of Osaka Group in Kinki region, which is assigned to the latest Pliocene to Early Pleistocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; poorly lithified lignite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, original chitin

Collection methods: Repository: Osaka Museum of Natural History (OMNH)

Primary reference: M. Hayashi. 1996. Insect fossil assemblage and paleoenvironments from the Early Pleistocene Bushi Formation in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 50:223-237 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153617: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2014

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