Locality 1A, Shimojin, Mashiki-machi: Middle Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Insecta
- Coleoptera
|
|||||||
| 30 specimens | |||||||
|
Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Elateridae
|
|||||||
| 1 specimen | |||||||
|
Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Scarabaeidae
|
|||||||
| 1 specimen | |||||||
|
Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Chrysomelidae
|
|||||||
| 1 specimen | |||||||
| 1 specimen | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Kumamoto |
| Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 130.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | Tsumori |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified siltstone | ||
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | intramontane basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original chitin |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 165713 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2015-01-27 00:08:47 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-27 00:08:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54167. | M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, N. Kitamura and E. Kitabayashi. 2004. Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Tsumori Formation of Mashiki-machi，Kumamoto Prefecture，Japan (Part 2). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 31:63-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |