Kasayama, Inobo, Torimaru village (Togo) (Pliocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (31.9° N, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 129.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torimaru Member (Togo Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Contains the Nagano flora, placed just below the Plio-Pleistocene boundary (c. 2.6 Ma) by Momohara (2016).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Y. Iwao, I. Fujiyama

• Repository: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University and National Science Museum of Tokyo

Primary reference: I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao. 1974. Fossil insects from Togo, Kagoshima, Japan (Tertiary insect fauna of Japan, 5). Bulletin of the National Science Museum 17:87-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160140: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formicidae indet. Latreille 1802 ant
NSMT PA11405
 Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
? Tenebrionidae indet. Latreille 1802 darkling beetle
CESES 20004
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Bibionidae indet. Fleming 1821 march fly
NSMT PA11404
Penthetria togoensis n. sp. Fujiyama and Iwao 1974 march fly
CESES 20002
Bibio sp. Geoffroy 1762 march fly
CESES 20003
Plecia intima n. sp. Fujiyama and Iwao 1974 love bug
CESES 20001