Daido Flora Locality: Miocene - Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
8 specimens
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
32 specimens
Turcz.
2 specimens
Steud.
2 specimens
Huzioka
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
23 specimens
(Nathorst) Tanai
15 specimens
(Nathorst) Tanai
Quercus miovariabilis Hu and Chaney 1938
2 specimens
Hu and Chaney
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
1 specimen
Huzioka
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Gunma
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 138.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 136.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6 - Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary
Key time interval: Miocene - Pliocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 2.58 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Daido
Stratigraphy comments: Plant bearing Daido Formation generally rests comformably upon the Kassezawa or Akasaka Formations and unconformably underlies the Krigakubi welded tuff Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Cyclic sediments of conglomerate, sandstone and siltstone it is correlative with the Late Miocene Itahana Formation by the lithology.
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
Collection method comments: The floristic composition suggests that the Daido flora was derived from the forest somewhat similar to the existing Fagus forest, which is now distributed in the valley to slope area of the cool temperate zone.
Metadata
Database number:22786
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:J. Cassara Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-26 04:29:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-26 04:29:16
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]