Where: Japan (33.2° N, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 130.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oyama Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified peat
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, and E. Kitabayashi. 2004. Early Pleistocene fossil insects from the Oyama Formation at Oyama-machi, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 31:69-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165712: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle | |
Donaciinae indet. Kirby 1837 leaf beetle
Donacia (Donaciomima) "sp. B" Medvedev 1973 leaf beetle
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859 reed leaf beetle |