Kazusa, Nagasaki: Late Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
1 specimen
Oligoaeschna pryeri in Esaki & Asahina, 1957
    = Oligoaeschna sp. Selys 1889
Nel et al. 1994
Insecta - Odonata - Calopterygidae
Calopteryx atrata Selys 1853
1 specimen
    = Calopteryx sp. Leach 1815
Nel and Paicheler 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.6° North, 130.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° North, 129.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oya
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:forearc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:127452
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-05-15 01:55:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-05-15 01:55:31
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

42272. 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]

Secondary references:

38446 A. Nel, X. Martínez-Delclòs, F. Escuillé and P. Brisac. 1994. Les Aeshnidae fossiles: Etat actuel des connaissances (Odonata, Anisoptera). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 194(2/3):143-186 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
42270 A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1993. Les Odonata fossiles: état actuel des connaissances. Huitième partie: Les Calopterygoidea fossiles (Odonata, Zygoptera). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 97(4):381-396 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]