Where: Japan (31.9° N, 130.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 130.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nagano Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Earliest Pleistocene according to Fujiyama and Iwao, but Nagano and Daiwa floras placed just below Plio-Pleistocene boundary (c. 2.6 Ma) by Momohara 2016.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo
Primary reference: I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao. 1975. Late Cenozoic insect faunas in the northwestern region of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum of Tokyo 8:33-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 188975: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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