Locality 2, Oyamamachi, Hito, Oita Prefecture: Early Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
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| 2 specimens | |||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Chrysomelidae
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| 5 specimens | |||||||
| 1 specimen | |||||||
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Plateumaris sp.
Thomson 1859
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2 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 131.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 130.6° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Oyama |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
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: | 165712 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2015-01-27 00:02:54 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-27 00:02:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54166. | M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, and E. Kitabayashi. 2004. Early Pleistocene fossil insects from the Oyama Formation at Oyama-machi, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 31:69-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |