Abura, Oshima Peninsula: Middle Miocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Odonata - Gomphidae
Gomphidae indet. Rambur 1842
1 specimen
NSM-PA12500
Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Luprops sp. Hope 1833
2 specimens
NSM-PA12512, 12514
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
2 specimens
NSM-PA12510, 12511
1 specimen
NSM-PA12512
Insecta - Hemiptera - Pentatomidae
1 specimen
NSM-PA12507
6 specimens
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
Insecta - Hemiptera - Acanthosomatidae
? Elasmuche sp. (Stal 1864)
1 specimen
NSM-PA12509
Acanthosoma sp. Curtis 1824
1 specimen
NSM-PA12508
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 42.5° North, 139.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.3° North, 137.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial 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
Collection method comments: Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo
Metadata
Database number:153619
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-01-01 23:13:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-01-01 23:13:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

49681. 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]