Naka-Shiobara, Shiobara-machi, Tochigi Prefecture (NSMT collection) (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (37.0° N, 139.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 139.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miyajima Formation (Shiobara Group), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified mudstone

• Caldera-fill lake

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo

Primary reference: S. Asahina. 1959. On a fossil dragonfly wing from the Pleistocene of Shiobara, central Japan. Kontyu 27:63-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162750: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadidae
"Tibicen bihamatus" = Auritibicen bihamatus3, "Terpnosia nigricosta" = Yezoterpnosia nigricosta2
"Tibicen bihamatus" = Auritibicen bihamatus3 Motschulsky 1861 cicada
NSM-PA12045
"Terpnosia nigricosta" = Yezoterpnosia nigricosta2 Motschulsky 1866 cicada
NSM-PI-5395; NSM-PA12019, 12020 in Fujiyama 1979
 Lepidoptera - Papilionidae
Papilio cf. maackii1 Ménétriés 1859 swallowtail butterfly
NSMT 7141
 Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae
Hestina japonica4 Felder and Felder 1862 brush-footed butterfly
NSM-PA12228
 Odonata - Macromiidae
Macromia amphigena Selys 1871 river cruiser
NSMT 3111