Nagano: Piacenzian, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Tenebrionidae
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| 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] |