Yagii Flora Locality M: Langhian - Messinian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
9 specimens
7 specimens
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
1 specimen
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
6 specimens
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
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,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:22752
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:J. Cassara Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-24 17:56:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-24 17:56:05
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]