Naka-Shiobara, Shiobara-machi, Tochigi Prefecture (NSMT collection): Chibanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Terpnosia nigricosta (Motschulsky 1866)
Fujiyama 1969 3 specimens
NSM-PI-5395; NSM-PA12019, 12020 in Fujiyama 1979
Tibicen bihamatus (Motschulsky 1861)
Fujiyama 1979 1 specimen
NSM-PA12045
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Papilionidae
Papilio cf. maackii Ménétriés 1859
Fujiyama 1968 1 specimen
NSMT 7141
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae
Hestina japonica (Felder and Felder 1862)
Fujiyama 1983 1 specimen
NSM-PA12228
Insecta - Odonata - Macromiidae
1 specimen
NSMT 3111 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 139.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Chibanian
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shiobara Formation:Miyajima
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:crater lake Tectonic setting:volcanic basin
Geology comments: Caldera-fill lake
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:162750
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-10-04 17:26:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-10-04 17:26:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
52992. S. Asahina. 1959. On a fossil dragonfly wing from the Pleistocene of Shiobara, central Japan. Kontyu 27:63-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

54815 I. Fujiyama. 1968. A Pleistocene fossil Papilio from Shiobara, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 11:85-95 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54814 I. Fujiyama. 1969. A Miocene cicada from Nasu, with an additional record of Pleistocene cicada from Shiobara, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 12:863-873 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
63458 I. Fujiyama. 1979. Some late Cenozoic cicadas from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C (Geology) 5:139-152 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
52993 I. Fujiyama. 1983. A Pleistocene nymphalid butterfly from Shiobara, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 9(4):121-128 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]