Osaka Group - west of Katagihara: Early Pleistocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Salviniales - Salviniaceae
unclassified
Lepidobalanus sp. microspore
Graminaea indet. microspore
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Cunninghamia sp. microspore Brown
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Tsuga sp. leaf, microspore Carrière 1855
Abies sp. leaf, microspore Miller 1754
Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Angiospermae - Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rosaceae
Rosa sp. sterile axis Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Castanea sp. microspore Miller 1754
Fagus crenata seed/fruit
Fagus microcarpa seed/fruit
Quercus sp. seed/fruit, microspore Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Alnus japonica seed/fruit
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Acer sp. seed/fruit, microspore Linnaeus 1753
Angiospermae - Malvales - Tiliaceae
Equisetopsida - Cupressales - Sciadopityaceae
Polypodiopsida - Salviniales - Salviniaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kyoto City
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 135.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° North, 135.4° East (Wright 2013)
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
Stratigraphy comments: ca. 0.6 m.y.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy siltstone
Lithology description: Sandy silt bed just above the Ma 5-marine clay bed.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:168082
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Jaramillo
Created:2015-04-15 11:45:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-15 11:45:30
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
54799.fossil record T. Nasu and K. Seto. 1976. Fossil macrospores and massulae of Salvinia natans from the Pliocene and the Quaternary sediments in the Kinki and Tokai districts, Japan. Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History 30(1):37-48 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]