Nagano: Piacenzian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
1 specimen
NSM-PA11636
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 130.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° North, 130.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nagano
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Earliest Pleistocene according to Fujiyama and Iwao, but Nagano and Daiwa floras placed just below Plio-Pleistocene boundary (c. 2.6 Ma) by Momohara 2016.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo
Metadata
Database number:188975
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2017-09-22 23:51:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-09-22 23:51:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

63459. I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao. 1975. Late Cenozoic insect faunas in the northwestern region of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum of Tokyo 8:33-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]