Abura, Oshima Peninsula (Miocene of Japan)

Where: Japan (42.5° N, 139.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 137.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• 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. 1987. Middle Miocene insect fauna of Abura, Hokkaido, Japan, with notes on the occurrence of Cenozoic fossil insects in the Oshima Peninsula, Hokkaido. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 20:37-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153619: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphidae
Gomphidae indet. Rambur 1842 clubtail dragonfly
NSM-PA12500
 Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Luprops sp. Hope 1833 darkling beetle
NSM-PA12512, 12514
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Harpalinae indet. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle
NSM-PA12512
"Calosoma" sp. Weber 1801 ground beetle
NSM-PA12510, 12511
 Hemiptera - Pentatomidae
Pentatomidae indet. Leach 1815 stink bug
NSM-PA12507
? Pentatoma sp. Latreille 1802 stink bug
NSM-PA12501 (H.U.M.P. 25604 in Tanai, 1963), 12502 (H.U.M.P. 25603 in Tanai), 12503 (H.U.M.P. 25607), 12504-12506
 Hemiptera - Acanthosomatidae
Acanthosoma sp., "? Elasmuche sp." = Elasmucha
Acanthosoma sp. Curtis 1824 shield bug
NSM-PA12508
"? Elasmuche sp." = Elasmucha Stal 1864 shield bug
NSM-PA12509