Okamasu, Kokufu Town: Middle Miocene, Japan
collected by M. Ota, Y. Okazaki 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Scarabaeidae
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Cheirotonus otai n. sp.
Ueda 1989
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 134.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 132.0° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fuganji |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone | ||
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | back-arc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Ota, Y. Okazaki | Collection dates: | July 31, 1980 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 123353 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-01-19 17:27:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-19 17:27:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39516. | K. Ueda. 1989. A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9:105-110 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |