Akakura, Yamagata Prefecture (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (38.7° N, 140.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 139.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Kazuhiko Uemura

• Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo

Primary reference: I. Fujiyama. 1982. Some fossil cicadas from Neogene of Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 8:181-187 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153921: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Cicadidae indet. Latreille 1802 cicada
NSM-PA12179