Sojiji, Monzenmachi Monzen (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Ishikawa, Japan (37.3° N, 136.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 134.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yanagida Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Shunji Watari in 1965

Primary reference: A. Takahashi and M. Suzuki. 1988. Two new fossil woods of Acer and a new combination of Prunus from the Tertiary of Japan. The Botanical Magazine 101:473-481 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224517: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.03.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Acer watarianum n. sp. Takahashi and Suzuki 1988 maple
University Museum, University of Tokyo, No. 53002 (holotype)