Omoto, Kitsuki City, Oita Prefecture: Chibanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Lepidoptera
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera
119 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
5 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
8 specimens
12 specimens
Hydrochara libera (Sharp 1884)
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
4 specimens
4 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
2 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
1 specimen
120 specimens
6 specimens
4 specimens
(1 measurement)
Donacia flemora Goecke 1944
4 specimens
(1 measurement)
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
1 specimen
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859
421 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
40 specimens
3 specimens
Oodini indet. Laferte-Senectere 1851
5 specimens
Synuchus sp. Gyllenhal 1810
1 specimen
1 specimen
3 specimens
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae
3 specimens
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
9 specimens
1 specimen
Ilybius sp. Erichson 1832
15 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 131.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Formation:Hirabaru
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0.60±0.13 Ma fission-track ages from pumice layer just above fossil unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:intramontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:165700
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2015-01-26 21:31:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-26 21:31:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

54160. M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, and E. Kitabayashi. 2005. Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Hirabaru Formation of Kitsuki City, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32:227-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]