Kuwanomaru, Yoshida-machi, Kagoshima Prefecture (Pleistocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (31.7° N, 130.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 130.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Yoshida plant bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by K. Uemura

• Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo

Primary reference: I. Fujiyama. 1979. Some late Cenozoic cicadas from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C (Geology) 5:139-152 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188971: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Graptopsaltria aff. nigrofuscata Motschulsky 1866 cicada
NSM-PA12018