Where: Japan (35.3° N, 134.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 132.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tatsumitoge Member (Ningyotoge Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Age estimated ca. 6.5-5.5 Ma by pollen assemblages

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, blue siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by T. Manabe, N. Toe in 1974, 1977

• Repository: Osaka Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: H. Kinugasa and Y. Miyatake. 1976. A Neogene cicada from Tatsumi-toge, Tottori Pref., Japan (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 30:5-10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160537: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.08.2014

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