Where: Japan (35.3° N, 134.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 132.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tatsumitoge Member (Ningyotoge Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Age estimated ca. 6.5-5.5 Ma by pollen assemblages
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Tottori Prefectural Museum
Primary reference: I. Fujiyama. 1982. Some fossil cicadas from Neogene of Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 8:181-187 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153919: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Graptopsaltria inaba n. sp.
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