Shiobara, Shiobara-machi, Tochigi Prefecture (SFMA collection): Chibanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Odonata - Gomphidae
Sato et al. 2022 10 specimens
SFMA0391, 0392, 0393, 0395, 0396, 0397, 0398, 0399, 0702, 0702
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0091
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0673
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0738
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0086
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0097
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0669
Pimplinae indet. Wesmael 1845
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0087
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0672
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0085
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0657
Aptesini indet. Smith and Shenefelt 1955
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0098
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0099
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0089
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0084
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0095
Takahashi et al. 2024 1 specimen
SFMA0343
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Camponotus sp. Mayr 1861
Takahashi and Aiba 2023 1 specimen
SFMA0652
Lasius sp. Fabricius 1805
Takahashi and Aiba 2023 3 specimens
SFMA0096, 0651, 0383
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
Takahashi et al. 2025 1 specimen
SFMA0094 (Siricidae indet. in Aiba 2015)
Takahashi et al. 2025 1 specimen
SFMA0650
Takahashi et al. 2025 1 specimen
SFMA0344
Insecta - Coleoptera - Psephenidae
2 specimens
SFMA0380, 0696
Psepheninae indet. Lacordaire 1854
1 specimen
SFMA0381
Insecta - Diptera - Sciaridae
Aiba and Menzel 2026 40 specimens
(70 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 139.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Geological group:Shiobara Formation:Miyajima
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:crater lake Tectonic setting:volcanic basin
Geology comments: Caldera-fill lake
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Konoha Fossil Museum (SFMA)
Metadata
Database number:211426
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2020-07-16 15:40:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-07-16 15:40:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

73062. M. Hayashi, H. Aiba, E. Nakano, Y. Takahashi, and T. Sato. 2020. Fossilized water pennies (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) in the Middle Pleistocene lake deposits in Shiobara site, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 26:84-86 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

94606 H. Aiba and F. Menzel. 2026. Discovered in Sciara Meigen (Diptera, Sciaridae): two preoccupied names and a remarkable new species from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group in Japan. Paleontological Research 30:46-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
84128 Y. Sato, H. Aiba, N. Oyama, Y. Takahashi, and T. Sato. 2022. Odonata fossil larvae from Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture. Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Division of Natural Sciences 74:37-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
86394 Y. Takahashi and H. Aiba. 2023. Winged formicine ant fossils (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 129:573-578 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
90094 Y. Takahashi, G. R. Broad, T. Spasojevic and H. Aiba. 2024. Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Paleontological Research 28:497-518 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
91954 Y. Takahashi, N. Oyama, and H. Aiba. 2025. Tenthredinid sawfly (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) fossils from the Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 131:71-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]