Locality 1A, Shimogose, Yoshimatsu-cho: Late Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera
250 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
2 specimens
1 specimen
10 specimens
? Ilybius sp. Erichson 1832
1 specimen
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
42 specimens
Bembidiinae indet. (Stephens 1827)
1 specimen
8 specimens
Oodini indet. Laferte-Senectere 1851
2 specimens
Synuchus sp. Gyllenhal 1810
9 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Noteridae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
4 specimens
11 specimens
7 specimens
Donacia ? splendens Jacobson 1894
4 specimens
Donacia lenzi Schoenfeldt 1888
3 specimens
Donacia ? ozensis Nakane 1954
1 specimen
Donacia flemora Goecke 1944
1 specimen
Cyphogaster sp. Goecke 1934
4 specimens
Donacia clavareaui Jacobson 1906
1 specimen
Donacia japana Chujo and Goecke 1956
4 specimens
Plateumaris sp. Thomson 1859
3 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
3 specimens
Baridinae indet. Schoenherr 1836
1 specimen
6 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
8 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Geotrupidae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
4 specimens
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Hydrochara libera (Sharp 1884)
6 specimens
41 specimens
2 specimens
Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
1 specimen
Insecta - Lepidoptera
2 specimens
Insecta - Diptera
4 specimens
Insecta - Hemiptera
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 130.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mizozono
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified siltstone
Environment:mire/swamp Tectonic setting:intramontane basin
Geology comments: Swamp with sedges, interspersed with areas of still water accompanied with emergent and floating-leaved plants.
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:166082
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2015-02-03 20:53:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-03 20:53:58
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
54285. M. Hayashi, K. Yahiro, and E. Kitabayashi. 2002. Late Pleistocene insects from the Mizozono Formation in Yoshimatsu-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 29:161-168 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]