Kazusa, Nagasaki (Pliocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (32.6° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 129.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oya Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: T. Esaki and S. Asahina. 1957. On two tertiary dragonflies species from the Oya-Formation in Kazusa-Nagasaki Prefecture. Kontyu 25:82-86 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127452: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Oligoaeschna sp.1 Selys 1889 true dragonfly
Oligoaeschna pryeri in Esaki & Asahina, 1957
 Odonata - Calopterygidae
Calopteryx sp.2 Leach 1815 broad-winged damselfly