Yagii Flora Locality F2: Langhian - Messinian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
4 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
1 specimen
? Persea sp. Gaertner 1805
4 specimens
2 specimens
3 specimens
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Parrotia sp. Meyer 1831
4 specimens
15 specimens
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
? Cocculus sp. de Candolle 1817
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Buxales - Buxaceae
Buxus protojaponica Tanai and Onoe 1961
67 specimens
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Bambusites sp. Ettingshausen 1886
7 specimens
Angiospermae - Liliales - Smilacaceae
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Malvales - Tiliaceae
8 specimens
5 specimens
Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae
34 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
1 specimen
10 specimens
1 specimen
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
5 specimens
Lespedeza sp. Michaux 1803
3 specimens
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
1 specimen
6 specimens
13 specimens
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Zelkova ungeri Kovats 1865
20 specimens
2 specimens
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Rosales - Pomaceae
1 specimen
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Rosales - Papilionaceae
6 specimens
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
1 specimen
3 specimens
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
1 specimen
1 specimen
2 specimens
1 specimen
8 specimens
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
27 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hirakata
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 139.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 137.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian - Messinian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5 - Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene
Key time interval: Langhian - Messinian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 5.333 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yagii
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: fine sandstone. The Yagii Formation is probably correlated with the Upper Itahana Formation, because they have common features in similar lithology and in lacking marine molluscan fossils.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:22744
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon, J. Cassara
Modifier:J. Cassara Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-24 13:09:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-24 13:09:06
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6513. K. Ozaki. 1991. Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan. Bulletin of Kanagawa Prefectural Museam Natural Science Special Issue 1-244 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon]