Konoha Fossil Museum quarry: Chibanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae
2 specimens
EES-ty0001a, b
Insecta - Hemiptera - Psyllidae
Cacopsylla cf. abieti (Kuwayama 1907)
Horiguchi et al. 2020 1 specimen
SFMA 0683 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Terpnosia nigricosta (Motschulsky 1866)
Nakano et al. 2018 1 specimen
SFMA0379
Horiguchi et al. 2020 1 specimen
KYFSI253 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 139.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Chibanian
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Miyajima
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Assigned to the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group. The age of deposits was determined from the correlation of fossil flora (Onoe, 1989) and tephrochronology (Suzuki et al., 1998).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,diatomaceous lithified mudstone
Lithology description: Diatomaceous laminated mudstones
Environment:crater lake Tectonic setting:volcanic basin
Geology comments: Distributed in the center of the basin, shows deep-water facies of the paleo-Shiobara Lake. Shiobara Basin is a caldera basin located on the northern slope of the Quaternary Takahara Volcano situated along the Hoki River. The caldera had a lake (paleo-Shiobara Lake)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba; Shiobara Fossil Museum; Konoha
Fossils Museum in Nasushiobara, Tochigi
Metadata
Database number:186848
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2017-07-05 18:32:23 Last modified:2026-03-01 12:09:53
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-05 18:32:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

62656. Y. Takahashi, M. Sutou, and S. Yamamoto. 2017. The compression mating fossil of sciarid fly (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Shiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Paleontological Research 21:288-292 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

94248 H. Aiba and M. Hayashi. 2026. Large cicada fossil (Cicadidae, Cicadinae, Tacuini) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Nasushiobara, Tochigi, Japan. Paleontological Research 30:1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
74220 A. Horiguchi, H. Aiba, Y. Takahashi, H. Inoue, and T. Sato. 2020. First fossil record of a jumping plant-louse (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) from Japan. PalZ 94:455-461 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
67378 E. Nakano, Y. Takahashi, H. Aiba and T. Sato. 2018. Cicada fossil from Nasushiobara city, Tochigi Prefecture. Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Division of Natural Sciences 70:55-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]