Locality 2, Taguchi, Saijo, Higashi-hiroshima: Middle Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera
26 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
11 specimens
2 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
18 specimens
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859
78 specimens
18 specimens
Insecta - Lepidoptera
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 34.4° North, 132.7° 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: Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Saijo
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Fission track ages of 0.60 ± 0.13 Ma from Seigachi pumice layer (probably just below the fossiliferous units).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified peat
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:165710
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2015-01-26 23:50:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-26 23:50:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
54165. M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, and E. Kitabayashi. 2008. Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Saijo Formation of Higashi-hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:89-93 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]